Op de grond, tussenin of aan de hemel | collaborative performance with Els Wuyts
December 16, 2018 | 11 am
The interview is a collaboration between the artist and other people who personification the rock voice or are the interviewers. It is an action in which the artist questions the Moon Rock drawing. The scenography of the conversation is composed by a chair where the interviewer sits, a screen where images of the logbook are displayed, the drawing and the person who does the personification the Rock sits behind the drawing. In the collaboration, the artist and the collaborators construct the personality of the rock. The personality construction is done under three vectors: (1) The material present in the Logbook (2) The research is done about the specific history of the Moon Rock of the country in which the action is presented and (3) the personality of the person who will do the personification the Moon Rock.
The subject of the conversation orbits around the history of the Moon Rock and what it represents. The questions of the interview are divided into two categories. The first, is the contour-questions, i.e. those that contain the interview through the documental rigour; the artists and the collaborators have previously scripted the contour-questions. The second category of questions are the graphite-questions, questions that haven’t been scripted, left for the speculation and confrontation and keep the spontaneity of the conversation fresh. The interview is the space in which the artist vulnerates itself to its work and the public. To do it takes advantage of the impossibility of controlling the Moon Rock answers and the questions made by the public.
