for one performer, many beach balls, live electronics, microphone and loudspeakers.

Commissioned by OTO Sound museum.

«In certain environments, our behaviors and movements are clearly defined. I know how to act in
a shopping mall, at the beach, or in a train station. It would seem quite strange if I deviated from these expected norms. However, some places fall into a grey area without many predefined patterns of behavior. In these spaces, I feel to have the freedom to move and act as I choose, without feeling
awkward.”
Cathy van Eck

In this work, Cathy van Eck introduces a specific action in the passage to the centre of the Kasernenareal and explores how this influences and transforms the space. Amplified by a sound system, the artist performs an almost ritualistic action that one might commonly see elsewhere. Her body works with the space in a dialogical dimension of correspondence through an interactive sound system that becomes a prosthesis of the body itself. In search for another place is a performance conceived as an archeological exercise in searching for the unseen aspects of places, hidden traces that exist wherever we are.

The performance is curated by Zaira Oram, Francesca Ceccherini.

All pictures by Axel Crettenand.