“Tableau Vivant”; a project, with the aim of a new perception of artworks of the past.

In this project artworks of the sixties and seventies will be “revived”, reconstructed in a new context, quite different from the one, in which the work was once presented. We are interested in how the reframing of the context would change the meaning and the message of the work. In the first “Tableau Vivant”; we will reconstruct “Exclusion Exercise” (1972) a work by Tamás Szentjóby. This is a performative work, so the reconstruction will be a performance as well, made by the artist himself. The repetition of his legendary exercise would pose the question: how do we perceive the same performance after a long time and whether the performance really would be the same within a different framework of time, way of perception, and changed notion of performance art itself? The reconstruction would have an art historical significance as well, since an event of the past would be available for direct contemporary perception.

(Little Warsaw, 2005.II.4.19.00h).

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