WHAT TO GET FROM WHAT YOU SEE
2013
lecture performance, photo: Slade School of Fine Art, London 2015
The performance WHAT TO GET FROM WHAT YOU SEE deals with the complex relationship between the visible – the stage – and the sayable – the performance – which is conceived here as a four-eye performance.
The arrangement aims to separate the visual from the conceptual experience, that is rendered through language. Visitors are invited to a four-eyes conversation behind a screen. The starting point of each conversation is my verbal description of a work of art that touches the boundaries between the visible and the sayable. I convey the works of visual art in a purely verbal way to let them become figurative in the imagination of my counterpart. This attempt to translate visual art into spoken language can be followed visually as a shadow play: the conversations, which cannot be overheard and are not recorded, are visible as an abstract live projection from beyond the screen.