2020. Site-specific performance

Site-specific performance is an artistic interaction of human and environment. With the help of their own bodies and movements, performers explore space, feel its geometry, dynamics or statics, possibilities or limitations. Performers try to become a part of the landscape and therefore accept it on a deeper level.

 

The performer's own body simultaneously becomes a tool, an object, and even a subject of research. The camera captures the interaction with space and other people. Photos are documentation of the process; the photographer does not interfere. It is prohibited for photographer to build a composition. Site-specific is a kind of magic – compositions of bodies and surroundings are built by themselves. These moments of spontaneous interaction are perfect and can’t be done consciously.

 

Summer 2020, we documented a site-specific performance at the Tyagin archeological site. During the performance, the excavations did not stop.

 

performers: "Insight" studio of contemporary dance

photographer: Max Afanasyev

choreographer: Yulia Artemenko

 

More about the experience and site-specific practices of performances in Kherson: