Maybe This Act, This Work, This Thing (2016)
by Joachim Koester
image: Adam Jandrup
In Maybe This Act, This Work, This Thing Börcsök performs for the second time in the video work of Danish visual artist Joachim Koester.
“This time the film is set in the late 1890’s. The set could be a theater, an apartment or a distinct “psychic architecture.” In this setting a pair of Vaudeville performers are rehearsing an act. They are channeling the spirit(s) of the newly developed cinematic apparatus, miming the machine, embodying the machine. As the spirit(s) enter they are transformed into cogs and wheels and moving belts. The grinding momentum of their movements creates a sense of extended urgency. Their movements are accompanied by occasional moaning; like squeaks of metal and sizzling of hard rubber. This is a truly revolutionary technology. The Vaudeville actors “fall” into poses like old photographs that have suddenly come alive. Great holes are poked in space and time. These are the holes they try to slip through in their attempt to utilize the forces unleashed. “
Performers Boglarka Börcsök & Zeina Hanna Cinematographer Adam Jandrup Light Adam Jandrup & Artur Castro Freire Sound recording Irvic D’Olivier & Marie Paulus Choreography & assistant director Liz Kinoshita Costume Anne-Catherine Kunz Make up & hair Marie Messien Film set design & construction Søren Assenholt & Herman Sorgeloos
Data handler Loup Brenta Production manager Jesse Van Bauwel, Marie Logie & Rebecca Jane Arthur Editing Joachim Koester & Lui Mokrzycki Sound editing & mixing Stefan A. Pedersen Color grading Ulrik Heltoft Produced by Auguste Orts Co-commissioned by Camden Arts Centre & Bergen Kunsthall Supported by Beckett-Fonden, Danish Arts Foundation, Knud Højgaards Fond, On & For Production, Statens Kunstfond & STUK | House for Dance, Image and Sound
Thanks to STUK team Wieter Bloemen, Laura Delaere, Ilse Van Essche, Bregt Janssens, Richard Kerkhofs, Neal Van Pee, Karen Verschooren and Sven Augustijnen, Michel Balague, Ellen Blumenstein, Gina Buenfeld, Martin Clark, Jenni Lomax, Anna Manubens, Maxim-Jo Beck McGosh, Jan Mot & Morten Søkilde
Previous dates:
Kunsthall Bergen, (NO) Jan 26–Mar 18 2018
Gallery Elba Benitez Madrid, (ES) Nov 18 2017–Jan 5 2018
Calgary Contemporary Calgary, (CA) Sep 15–Sep 17 2017
Calgary Contemporary Calgary, (CA) Sep 1 2017–Jan 21 2018
STUK Leuven, (BE) Mar 30–May 28 2017
CPH:DOX Copenhagen, (DK) Sunday, Mar 26 2017
CPH:DOX Copenhagen, (DK)Tuesday, Mar 21 2017
Camden Arts Centre London, (GB) Jan 28–Mar 26 2017
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