2012, ORGANIC LIFE, MANIFESTA 9, Hasselt

BERGAMOT GROUP

ORGANIC LIFE

Performance
2012
Hotel De Immigrantes - Cosmopolitan Stranger.
MANIFESTA 9, Hasselt, Belgium

6 min

Maslouskaya and Tratsiuk hindered each other from entering and leaving a room. In the doorway, at the threshold between indoor and outdoor space, they carried out a struggle for territory in a kind of deadlock. They acted out a struggle
of genders in which each attacks the other but at the same time robs him or herself of all agency. But this struggle could also be seen as an endless duel or as a call for constant resistance against violence and the attempt to appropriate.
In this case, doing violent harm to each other also means resisting the violence from the other and risking continuous conflict rather than resigning passively.
In this work, Bergamot make it explicitly clear how much the establishment of power also has to do with drawing limits and that these are therefore precisely the limits that it is necessary to exceed again and again.

Rainer Fuchs