Installation and performance by Ines Lechleitner with Alice Chauchat. First shown in the exhibition
"I have always imagined that paradise would be some kind of library", "Friends with Books",
December 2015, at Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, DE.
Elements :
Notation drawing: pastel on painted wall (size variable), based on a field recording from the interdisciplinary research project H Like Horses, with Marion Mangelsdorf.
Schulterblatt - Alice Chauchat: papier-mâché 0bject, on the wall and worn by dancer during the performance ( 18cm x 36cm x 3cm).
Performance: Alice Chauchat (dance) and Ines Lechleitner (blind drawing), Max Haas (dramaturgy), duration about 8 minutes.
Through movement, Alice Chauchat interprets the notation drawing by Ines Lechleitner. The drawing attempts to mediate a video sequence of human-horse interaction – from the interdisciplinary research project H Like Horses, with the cultural scientist Marion Mangelsdorf.
The performance takes place in the exhibition space as a part of Lechleitner’s installation.
The unedited video sequence(not visible in installation) from October 2012 in Sitzkirch, Kandern in the Black Forest, shows Marion Mangelsdorf working with the brown arabian stallion Hillal, who periodically gets distracted by the Black Arabian-warmblood Stallion Milan, runs away and comes back to her.
The papier-mâché 0bject Schulterblatt - Alice Chauchat is based on a body cast of the dancer herself. It is part of the installation and plays an essential role in the performance.
“The object is not my back. The video is not a drawing. The drawing is not a movement. A human is not a horse”- citation Alice Chauchat.
It is this space in between - where synchronicity becomes the leading force of communication- that Four To Two Feet seeks to investigate.
installation view of Four To Two Feet after the performance in "I have always imagined that paradise would be some kind of library", Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE. © photograph: Thomas Bruns, 2015; courtesy Friends with Books, Berlin.
performance views of Four To Two Feet, with Alice Chauchat in "I have always imagined that paradise would be some kind of library", Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE. © photograph: Thomas Bruns, 2015; courtesy Friends with Books, Berlin
notation wall drawing, installation view
performance views of Four To Two Feet, with Alice Chauchat in "I have always imagined that paradise would be some kind of library", Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE. © photograph: Thomas Bruns, 2015; courtesy Friends with Books, Berlin
details of Four To Two Feet after the performance. © photograph: Javier Chiocchio, 2015.
