Rehearsal (ongoing)

This new video piece deals with irreversible and reversible changes of states of matter and things. A piece of choreography for two hands that pick, move and manipulate various objects at first orderly arranged on a simple table, it is obsessive in a matter-of-fact way. The performer, her face outside of the frame, documents each phase of the process with a Polaroid camera. Attempts at restoring order meet practical difficulties; some actions must remain incomplete while others are brought to a successful end. Neither a still life, nor a table dance, REHEARSAL (ONGOING) is a coffee-and-cigarettes-meet-Nivea-cream tale, an exploration of the paradoxical realms of analogue live animation and an alternative to kitchen sink realism.