{"id":1547,"date":"2007-10-24T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T17:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/performance-2-passage\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T17:27:08","slug":"performance-2-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/performance-2-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"performance 2 (passage)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"untitled<\/a>A continuation from The Wireframe Series: Sentimental Construction #1<\/a>, performance 2 (passage)<\/a> is a similarly site-specific, publicly performed architectural structure made of rope. The piece, erected in Joubert Park, Johannesburg South Africa (2007), twists the idea of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpublic space\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by its double activation: first, through the volunteers who stretch its form outward and around them; and second, through the communal play of the park’s inhabitants, which gives the structure a performative turn.<\/p>\n

Although the design is, itself, a passage – several doorframe shapes in series, swinging freely from atop four wooden poles – it can only move between hard and soft, virtual and actual, public and private, through its contact with people. This is juxtaposed with the inconsistencies of South Africa’s major inner-city: crumbling art deco buildings surrounded by crowded streets and busy taxi ranks, all making way for the quiet of the Johannesburg Art Gallery’s neo-classical architecture, and the leisurely games, picnics and ice cream stands in the inexplicably carved-out Joubert Park. The surrounding areas of the park have historically been a bundle of contradictions – before, during and after Apartheid – sustained as civic spaces because of how they’re used by the public. performance 2 playfully mirrors the contradictions of this space and its utility, and further underpins the tensions between work and play, nostalgia and possibility, construction and emergence.<\/p>\n

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Performers \/ Documentarians: Brendan Copestake, Ismail Farouk, Anthea Moys, Jo\u00c3\u00a3o Orecchia, Rat Western. Click<\/a> for photos and sketches.<\/p>\n

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A continuation from The Wireframe Series: Sentimental Construction #1, performance 2 (passage) is a similarly site-specific, publicly performed architectural structure made of rope. 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