Szuper Gallery   I will survive
Performance, 2007 		   
 

Bregenz, July 2007
commissioned by Kunstverein Bregenz, Magazin for 4'33'

4'33'' MAGAZIN 4,
Kunstverein Bregenz
July 2007


I will survive, Video 2007
"I will survive" assembles elements of masquerade and theoretical text...
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I will survive, performance still

 
 
   
   

Unrepeatable Affects -
Beyond the Score
by Peter Lewis

John Cage was a starting point, looking at 4 minutes 33 seconds performance of "silence", from this point in time. The piece had accrued a litany of interpretations, counter-arguments, reactions, re-articulations, and re-enactments as evidence of the still vivid concerns of musicians and artists alike, as universal concerns, in the broadest sense. The remainders of 4'33"themselves have been carried over to become part of the detritus littering the cultural landscape. We asked could 4'33" be encountered in a kind of free-fall that relieves it of so much baggage? Could it be performed, what the philosopher Gilles Deleuze nominates, from "any-space-whatever"?

An effect is produced now without a cause. Interruption becomes the subject itself, when considered as a point of departure. What if true beginnings are not at an actual beginning? At any departure there is longing. Here the distance from the work itself might come under a certain scrutiny and be of use, for younger artists not necessarily interested or acquainted with John Cage. They might be alerted to the importance of a work, to which they possibly felt an affinity or little in common, and were drawn to it at a risk to their practice to challenge or test it.
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The video performance by Szuper Gallery was acted acted out in different public locations in Bregenz. A reference to 4'33'' occured both in its structure and on an allegorical level. It also made reference to notions of theatre, re-staging, or a performance of existence. We proposed to hire a professional make-up artist (someone with a very good and classical theatre or opera training) to work with us in order to create three different face manipulations for three conse-cutive days (i.e. a different one each day). The first face made us look about 20 years younger, the sec-ond face emphasized our current features and the third face made us about 20 years older. During the performance, we 'took' these faces to different places in Bregenz, where we remained, silently, for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. We visited the same locations each day with a different 'face'. The performance was documented on video. A parallel video works was produced.


I will survive, production still

I will survive, production still

I will survive, performance still

 I will survive, production still

 



     

     

 
           


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