Original Spaces / Legalised Gestures

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ORIGINAL SPACES / LEGALIZED GESTURES

Intro

The following book can serve as a guide for staging the performance installation ORIGINAL SPACES / LEGALIZED GESTURES - which encompasses the LIMITS OF IDENTITY aggregator.
At times, it includes elements that might appear to be excerpts from an exhibition catalog or instances of self-irony regarding DIY-style production. Yet, beyond these inserts (which are, in fact, essential), the book remains a practical manual interwoven with a dramatic script. It is a manual that enables the (re)staging—in a gallery, hall, foyer, room, school, or apartment—of the installation dissected in the chapters that follow. It is a dissection manual for the performance/exhibition and for all the transitions between these two components or modes of existence.
As you read, the potentially expressive intersections between choreography, visual arts, and design within a performance installation may become clear. It is equally likely that the following pages will deconstruct the anthropological study underpinning the dramaturgical approach developed by Ruxandra Pop, Simona Dabija, and Ioana Marchidan. Furthermore, the working method by which the dramaturgical discourse intersected with the curatorial discourse will likely be defined.

Ultimately, you may discover how these intersections materialize into spatial discourse, visual discourse, and—not least—performative discourse.

A quasi-dramaturgical manual for (re)installation; for potential users of hybrid arts.