Between
September 27 and October 3 the Museum shows first from the
series of three innovative performances by New York performance
artists, who will work with the current new presentation of the
collection to expand its frame and outline to new boundaries,
interactions, notions, and readings.
As
part of the exhibition "In the Heart of the Country",
SALOON by Georgia Sagri presents "There is no country in our
hearts". SALOON is an ongoing performance project initiated in
2007. SALOON will be working on the collection and its
reconfiguration through series of performances with works in the
Museum collection and works of the invited artists: Roman Stańczak
and Kostis Velonis, Zofia Kulik and Anna Molska, Geta Brătescu and
Asli Çavuşoğlu, Jack Smith and Bill Kouligas. Through “hijacking”
of a curatorial process this performance in duets reshapes the
environment of dynamic exchanges between seen works.
SALOON
manifests Sagri's involvement in ideas of movement, flee, and
deterritorialization. "It derives just out of need for enjoyment
and constant change. Assuming there is no passive and active, inside
and outside, representation and representatives what kind of social
grounds can be created? SALOON is the moment of question not answer."
SALOON:
I.
September 27 (Friday) at 8pm
Roman
Stańczak and Kostis Velonis
II.
September 28 (Saturday) at 8pm
Zofia
Kulik and Anna Molska
III.
October 2 (Wednesday) at 8pm
Geta
Brătescu and Asli Çavuşoğlu
IV.
October 3 (Thursday) at 8pm
Jack
Smith and Bill Kouligas
SALOON:
There is no country in our hearts
"There
is no country in our hearts" I told her and she looked at
me with surprise. I couldn't suggest a drink after that
look of hers. With that gaze of hers, its discomfort that made me
think of my knees and how I need to open my bag without reason,
just checking things in my bag I walked and walked for hours.
I started recording my voice saying how I hate being asked
from which country I am, those shitty borders, nationalities,
national expectations for what, for whom exactly are those
expectations for, for which reason to talk my mother tongue like
there is something that belongs to me when I speak it? I want
my steps to be steps of pleasure for the things I do that
I don't need to name, - I recorded that- the smells,
sounds, textures, clothing and behaviors of a different world.
Georgia
Sagri, 2013
Roman
Stańczak, Cupboards, 1996
Curator : Monika Szczukowska, Collaboration :Natalia Sielewicz
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw
