
Photo: Thomas Mayer
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I often don’t know how to relate to art.
Frustrated by how institutional settings inhibit bodily engagement, I decided to experiment with approaching artworks through slow, freeform movement; guided by three rules which define acceptable gallery etiquette:
Move slowly, vocalise quietly, don’t touch.
The practice led me to a deeper, embodied way of experiencing sculpture and space. The meditative movement focused my attention, allowing a gradual discovery of an artwork’s details and material complexity, registering them at the level of the whole body rather than just the mind. This marked a clear shift from the restless uncertainty and self-imposed expectation to "understand" a work, that I often experience in galleries.
From this process, I developed a live slow-movement performance, a video installation documenting the research, and a public workshop inviting others to inhabit the same careful, attentive mode.
¬ Created and performed for the Onsite Festival 2023 at Brucke Museum, Berlin.

Photo: Shai Cohen
Video: Thomas Mayer. Vocalisations by Jee-Ae Lim.


Research process. Photos: Shai Cohen

Public Performance. Photo: Daniel Weyand.
2023

Video Installation. Photo: Daniel Weyand.
Photo: Thomas Mayer.


Photo: Thomas Mayer
2023
I often don’t know how to relate to art.
Frustrated by how institutional settings inhibit bodily engagement, I decided to experiment with approaching artworks through slow, freeform movement; guided by three rules which define acceptable gallery etiquette:
Move slowly, vocalise quietly, don’t touch.
The practice led me to a deeper, embodied way of experiencing sculpture and space. The meditative movement focused my attention, allowing a gradual discovery of an artwork’s details and material complexity, registering them at the level of the whole body rather than just the mind. This marked a clear shift from the restless uncertainty and self-imposed expectation to "understand" a work, that I often experience in galleries.
Video: Thomas Mayer.
Vocalisations by Jee-Ae Lim.




Photos: Shai Cohen & Daniel Weyand

Photo: Daniel Weyand.
Created and performed for the Onsite Festival 2023 at Brucke Museum, Berlin.