AUS X FOLGT Y FOLGT Z FOLGT X' (from x follows y follows z follows x')
with Felix Helmut Wagner, supported by Daniel Stolzlederer
performance & installation
duration: 20 min synthetic glass and painted steel objects, painted drum, water balls, wooden table, bicycle, marker drawing on wall 420 x 520 x 390 cm
Masc Foundation, Vienna 2019
photos: Zoe Opratko
The performance AUS X FOLGT Y FOLGT Z FOLGT X' forms a metaphorical setting of chaos (Felix, under the table), time (Daniel, turning the wheel of time) and science (Darja, in a white coat in her laboratory).
Felix talks about humans' absurd pursuit of logic, order and knowing, calls up unpredictable things and spits coloured water. Darja notes, measures and calculates. The four metal objects with a fixed assignment are lifted into the air via ropes and readjusted according to a system. Although Felix forms a clear intruder in Darja's system, they exist parallel to each other in the same room, without responding to each other. Daniel circles above them as the omnipresent time.
The performance deals with anonymous topics of art and science, human and outer space, chaos and order and rises questions about persistence of definitions, the construct of time and human systems.