Two disabled performance artists and a geographer explore the corridor and stairwell of the Chisenhale in London, searching for access, habitable spaces, lines of communication, new maps and new stories. | Narrative structures have the status of spatial syntax (Michel de Certeau: The Practice of Everyday Life) | |
Landscaping: A Meditation on Everyday Space |
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A Performance Video by The Olimpias |
Performance/Installation devised and performed by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Petra Kuppers and Derek McCormack at Chisenhale Dance Space, April 2001. Videoproduction: Camera: Sophia Lycouris, Edit: Roger Richards, Producer: Petra Kuppers |
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A house constitutes a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of stability. We are constantly re-imagining its reality: to distinguish all these images would be to describe the soul of the house; it would mean developing a veritable psychology of the house. To bring order to these images, I believe that we should consider two principal connecting themes: 1) A house is imagined as a vertical being. It rises upward. It differentiates itself in terms of its verticality. It is one of the appeals to our consciousness of verticality. (Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space) | (c) The Olimpias, 2002, 4 mins. | |
Contact: petrakuppers@olimpias.net |