2002, ORGANIC LIFE, Multimedia Festival, CCA Inner Spaces, Poznań

BERGAMOT GROUP

ORGANIC LIFE

Performance
2002
Inner Spaces Multimedia Festival, CCA Inner Spaces, Poznań, Poland

23 min

The Belarusian group Bergamot, in my opinion, managed in its performance series “organic life” to go beyond the limits of the classical treatment of this genre. And also create the possibility of a multi-level interpretation of their action - from universal to gender, thanks to which the action presents itself very contemporary.
The artists (he and she) simultaneously but in different rooms carried out gestures of direct and symbolic destruction regarding their own social image and gender. Volha Maslouskaya sawed off the high heels of her shoes, while Raman Tratsiuk
glued the soles of his shoes together with Super Glue, as a result of which he immobilized himself; after which the artist limped and pulled him “off the stage”, thus making an Ironic analysis of his own social gender and its signs and symbols.
The artists tried to bring their social roles to a common denominator. He - to dispel the myth of the real man, hard-headed, she of the “unearthly “ and therefore unattainable woman....

Liza Morozova.