this is a constructed situation with dancers by tino sehgal. it is also my most favourite piece of art at the moment...
when entering into the gallery space there is somebody on the floor. this person is moving very slowly. curling like a kitten, smoothing the floor. feeling weighted and connected to the ground. the mover/dancer curls around the room very low. at one point her head connects with one wall, then she turns around with her fingers held up like a camera frame and gazes around the room. the dancer turns over and over, always anchored to the floor.
as long as st paul street gallery is open there is always a dancer dancing to herself in the room. in total this work will run for 533 hours. this work is from 2000 so tino seghal was 24 when he conceived it! he's a bit of a genius in my opinion. this work is really a set of instructions communicated to dancers...
the best part is the mere presence of a moving body in the gallery space. this work seems to take contemporary art/theatre/dance to a perfect place. there are no photographs of the work so it only exists visually as a present performance...
it is quite wonderful knowing that I can go visit it at st paul st gallery whenever I feel like it... I think I've seen it four times now...
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