of Antas, Saudade and tracing the hours
Of Antas, Saudade and tracing the Hours was a performative installation conceived for the 2015 Rundgang show at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste with the collaboration of Rivas Rivas. The duration of the performative installation was roughly 90 minutes and the post-performance installation was to be seen for the remainder of the show.
On the floor of the exhibition space lay a heap of black ceramic objects, a box of latex gloves, a few sheets of paper with text on them, and a small plinth with booklets on it. Rivas Rivas and I arrived, we put on our latex gloves and sat down by the ceramic objects. We began to speak unintelligibly with wild gestures and strenuously kept referring to both the text and the ceramic objects. Rivas Rivas would occasionally get up, take a few of the objects with her and, while I was observing her actions, she would construct texts on the window sill. We then returned to the text and the rest of the objects on the floor. This action was repeated for the duration of the performance until the entire text had been translated and all of the ceramic objects had been displaced.