Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Untitled (Holding Horizon), 2018. Photo: 1+ 2: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Untitled (Holding Horizon), 2018. Performance at Sophiensaele, Berlin, 2023. Courtesy: the artist. Photo: Spyros Rennt Photo 3: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Untitled (Holding Horizon), 2018. Performance at Frieze Artist Award, London, 2018. Courtesy: the artist. Photo: Spyros Rennt
Untitled (Holding Horizon)
Untitled (Holding Horizon) is a choreography that continues Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ engagement with negotiations of desire, the materiality of gestures, and affections of a queer commons. Through sensual, alienated gestures and the box step –a movement used in several social dances– synchronization, pleasure and alliance coexist with disorientation, limitation, and loss.
On the thresholds of visibility and invisibility, the performers navigate the fluctuating dynamics of collectivity, intimacy, and interdependence. They affect, and become affected by, the live mixed sound and light, while repetition and duration elicit shifting perceptions and associations. A memory of a rave, a ghostly gathering, a celebration and mourning, a militant congregation, a pastoral imaginary. In this altered state, the box step becomes a vessel for the limit as material.
Untitled (Holding Horizon) relies on a durational experience. The audience will be able to enter and leave the space at their leisure
On the thresholds of visibility and invisibility, the performers navigate the fluctuating dynamics of collectivity, intimacy, and interdependence. They affect, and become affected by, the live mixed sound and light, while repetition and duration elicit shifting perceptions and associations. A memory of a rave, a ghostly gathering, a celebration and mourning, a militant congregation, a pastoral imaginary. In this altered state, the box step becomes a vessel for the limit as material.
Untitled (Holding Horizon) relies on a durational experience. The audience will be able to enter and leave the space at their leisure
CREDITS
Choreography
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
In collaboration with and performed by Aaa Biczysko
Ewa Dziarnowska
Rafał Pierzyński
Ronald Berger
Sigrid Stigsdatter
Developed with
Aaa Biczysko
Ewa Dziarnowska
Rafał Pierzyński
Sigrid Stigsdatter
Tiran Normanson
With special thanks to
Billy Morgan
Developed as part of
Kem's residency at the Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Production manager
Ola Knychalska
Live sound and lighting
Krzysztof Bagiński
Sound research
Jana Androsova
Krzysztof Bagiński
Tobias Koch
Filip Lech
Styling advice
Rafał Domagła
Originally commissioned for the 2018 Frieze Artist Award, in partnership with Delfina Foundation, and presented as part of Frieze Projects, curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt
A production by
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins Studio
Studio director
Andrea Rodrigo
Studio manager
Sarie Nijboer
Management Consultant
Rui Silveira
Distribution
Something Great
Duration
3 hours (entry/exit possible continuously)