2024 — Duration: to be defined Body, camera First presented: to be defined Performers: to be defined
Video and performance built entirely on the activity of stretching: muscle stretches, releases, joint extensions. The movements are those of preparatory exercise — lateral bends of the torso, quadriceps stretches, hip openers, shoulder rotations — but they are performed without any sporting activity following. There is no warm-up before a run, no preparation for a competition. The gesture of stretching is isolated and repeated as an autonomous activity. A performer carries out a sequence of stretches: holds the position, releases, moves on to the next. Each movement begins and ends in itself, without connecting to the one before or anticipating the one after. There is no progression, no accumulation. The body lengthens, relaxes, returns to the starting position. The camera records these actions in sequence. The time of the performance coincides with the time of physical execution: the duration of each position is the real duration of the muscle stretching and releasing.
Entropic regime. The string has been cut: each position begins and ends in itself, without progression and without accumulation. The gesture leads nowhere. Here the circuit does not close — stretching is preparation for nothing, the string hangs in the void.
Photo: Cristina Crippa Produced by artQ13.