Alexandra Pirici
Choreographies of past few months
I am trying to respond to the question of “What artistic contribution could interact with the current situation?” in this particular framework, with the resources and the medium of expression it can offer in times of spatial isolation and physical distancing imposed by the coronavirus crisis. I agree with the necessity of new artistic statements, voices and contributions within the current landscape, which is also a landscape of struggle. At the same time, as an artist I don’t think the arts should try to keep the same pace of production during these few months, when faced with such a reduction of possible communication spaces. Beyond the resources they can put into supporting artists and cultural workers in the present, I hope they also gather strength and focus on their crucial role of providing substantial support for deep engagement, for thinking, imagining and practicing complex ways of being in the world as we come out of the coronavirus crisis, into the larger crisis that the world was in, even before the current pandemic. My response now, therefore, takes the form of an observation act, which also implies an intrinsic reframing.
What follows is a small collection of images, two-dimensional representations of gestures and movements performed during the past few months, which have already circulated in the media. The images depict a
social choreography–sculpture of subjects and objects within the contexts which enabled them; actions that have been performed outside artistic frameworks and have been captured by different photographers or social media users. The collage attempts to reframe them. Their arrangement in this format is the result of a personal process of selection, contextualization and therefore also re-signification, to a certain extent. It does not mean to represent reality but to give some insights into potential interpretations of reality and desired projections; to offer a way of looking at.
