Katarina Šević

ARTWORK

documentation / performance art

movement / process / public space / relationship

2007

http://www.skulpturenpark.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1309

I used Skulpturenpark (www.skulpturenpark.org) as a stage for a mass choreography. The initial idea for the project was based on the notion of mass 'patterns', the connections and contradictions in the very basic of the conceptual, symbolic and aesthetic values of the phenomena of mass (physical) displays. I was always fascinated by the (un)controlled power of a mass and the unified dynamics of individuals under a common goal. I found interesting relationships and similarities between past and present forms of mass displays, such as protests, group gymnastics, ritual gatherings, social movements, processions, and simple everyday routines. Varying from the extreme right to the extreme left, from socialism to fascism, ‘coordinated movements’ of thousands of human bodies offer us precise readings of the society as a whole. (...) (K.S.)