Estuaries, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2024, Performance View.
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Hamburger Bahnhof, Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
12.04.-22.09.2024“The performances expand on the logic of work as a platform, and encapsulate the whole exhibition as a unique platform. The performances take place in the exhibition and on the works. With each large grouping of works, I try to have a performance take place at least on one occasion during the run of the exhibition. I put together a group of performers, musicians, and with the Inversions also dancers.”
(Naama Tsabar In Conversation With Ingrid Buschmann / Estuaries exhibition catalog)
The composition for Estuaries was composed and performed by Julia Biłat, Gabriela Burdsall, Arone Dyer, Tatiana Heuman, Naïma Mazic, Rasha Nahas, Avishag Cohen Rodrigues, Sarah Strauss, Naama Tsabar.
Installation and performance photography © Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Laura Fiorio
Estuaries, Video documentation of performance, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2024
“Body is key. Performances on the works call for a different audience-performer-work of art relationship. The audience is usually in the center and we envelope it, while at the same time facing away from it. There are times when a performer needs to cross a room full of visitors in order to get to a specific work that they are activating next. I guide the performers to cross as though there is no one there, no eye contact, no stopping. I view our performance as ritualistic, tribal, in that sense the visitors have more of a voyeuristic role. We, the performers, are in a vulnerable position –on the same level, or lower than the audience, disregarding the audience helps us stay focused and empowered as a group. The feeling is that the performances would happen with or without the audience being there.”
(Naama Tsabar In Conversation With Ingrid Buschmann / Estuaries exhibition catalog)
Estuaries, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2024, Performance View.
Estuaries, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2024, Performance View.
Estuaries, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2024, Performance View.
Estuaries, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2024, Performance Views.
Estuaries, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2024, Performance View.