Estranged Proximities
Production stills by Damaso Reyes
2007
Single Channel Video for Projection
A Waiting Laboratory | 19:30
Actors:
Félix Kama, Fabienne Elaine Hollwege, Stela M. Katic
Estranged Proximities documents a performance of “waiting” with 3 actors. The gestures were based on micro-sociological observations of individuals waiting alone in public / social spaces in Stuttgart, Berlin & Hannover over a period of 2 months. The gestures of waiting were then improvised by the actors in a series of interactions with one another as different characters.
Biography
The contingency of normality is the focus of Reed’s artistic and textual practice. Normality can only be apprehended as a given reality through social consensus, and this consensus is inherently plastic, malleable. The play with the plasticity (potential) of the normal, both conceptually and materially, constitutes the foundation of her practice. Reed’s (often) obsessive works [...]