CHAMALLE X. PERFORMANCE.MALGOSIA BUTTERWICK
My performance work is based on interaction between practice and theory (expressed in writings). I try to chase a state of (utopic?) artistic consciousness, in which the idea never totally precedes the action, and the action is never a full illustration of the idea. If performance is in any way “for real” – it is to me precisely in the Lacanian sense of the Real – a dimension turning around what is impossible to signify...
Therefore, performing is to me a self-imposed duty to keep on looking for one’s own, individual way to deal with a moment removed from common formulas of reality, with one’s own presence/absence within it, to learn to be totally “with oneself“ for that moment... to submit to a constant process of action and cognition, that can be thrilling and may be... terrifying.
I always doubt if I will be able to perform again…
