Abstract
"Porous structure" is, in a way, a contradiction in terms. When speaking of porosity, the focus is not on the material itself but rather on the negative space, the emptiness between things. Emptiness. Vacuum. Silence. Non-happening. These are not usually things we choose to work with, or even notice, for that matter.
The "studies" are an attempt at making a placement without a corresponding perturbation. They intentionally avoid attention. It is a collection of actions, each designed such that taken individually, they would hardly be noticed. We work with the unmarked in public space.
It is a subversive practice. In this day and age when specularity permeates the everyday and “social space is completely saturated with the culture of the image” (Fredrick Jameson), what might be strategies of resistance? Withdrawal is impossible. We can’t run, but perhaps if we simply wait and watch, we will see that there is more room than we originally believed.
Study #3 was developed for the square in front of the Biel/Bienne train station. Two performers move with passersby, accompanying them as they traverse the square, engaging them in a silent pas de deux.