Three Lives
Anita Wach
“Art and nature, art in nature, share a common structure: that of excessive and useless production—production for its own sake, production for the sake of profusion and differentiation.”
Elizabeth Grosz
2nd sentence of the 30 Movements cycle
Three autonomous life forms – two with the ability to move, one with the ability to produce oxygen, all with the ability to sense. Three creatures, each with its own survival strategy, looking for ways to put down roots in the concrete floor of art. The hierarchy between them is blurred, the nature of their coexistence paradoxical. Fragility dictates the relationships between them, passivity dictates the direction of movement. The only way they can communicate is through touch, muscle cramps and the laws of gravity.
Three Lives
2022 • 30 Movements
Performance • 40 min
Concept — Anita Wach
Performed by — Anita Wach, Jernej Škof, Aeschynanthus Rasta, Dypsis Lutescens, Cactus
Producer — Špela Trošt
Production — Via Negativa
Performance
08-04-2022, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana