Performance night: Time is the thing a body moves through

Time is the thing a body moves through is an exploration of performance in various forms and contexts, taking place over two evenings at Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose. At the invitation of curator Titus Nouwens, artists G and Dudu Quintanilha present new live performances alongside video works from recent years. Revisiting these works, they create new inter-relationships within their practice and reconfigure divisions between image and body, absence and presence, what is considered live and what is mediated.

In the videos, the artists propose spaces for performance – in the studio or on the streets of their hometowns Luton and São Paulo. Improvised yet charged moments are captured on camera (having lunch in a fish-and-chips shop with the ashes of the artist’s father on the table). In the work of G and Quintanilha, performance is directly connected to life, to the reality beyond the walls of the spaces of art. It is used to give form to feelings of grief and discomfort, togetherness and joy.

* The title Time is the thing a body moves through is borrowed from T Fleischmann’s book with the same name.

** This project is curated by Titus Nouwens and supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts