Durational performance by Marina Collard.
12 – 13 – 14 April, every day from 10am to 6pm – RUFA Space, Pastificio Cerere.
Looking for the Exit is a durational performance taking place in RUFA Space. It exploits the opportunity to have two identical environments separated by a doorway, a threshold. A threshold can also be defined as “a point at which you start to experience something or at which something starts to happen”.
These two environments are furnished simply with a table and a chair which provide a territory for investigating memory, repetition and forgetting. Marina moves from one set-up to the other as thresholds are crossed, confronted or straddled. The forgetting, the going back over things, the restless attempts to settle is manifested and considered through the body over three consecutive days. The duration provides the context for staying with the process and allowing for unexpected elements to occur. The body in space determines how things are going to unfold as Marina taps into a swirling combination of images, memories, details, and associations felt and physicalised.
The work is based on experience, movement and improvisation. In particular, it is the physical expression practised through ordinary movements, occasionally rearranged, which can render the unspectacular visible.
