Erdal Bilici

buffer, swoosh by Jetty's Mod (Erdal Bilici & Bertram von Undall)
//:an interface, a co-workers'team building event
//:a performance installation
at Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art - Copenhagen

JETTY ; said or implied ()post-office()
immaLABOR , 'terial' b-mind(eral) -
discursivebodycollapse , >>culTIER<< "all as T.A.Z. [What a modification?]"
[S]o what'd u think?
Baud:REF:sim:sim Valet, "a mat sedan waitn' ou'side." *commune commune*

Artist duo Jetty's Mod attempts, with their performance installation, buffer, swoosh, to create an immersive narrative, through which the audience, themselves, are invited to become actors or participants within a cinematic scene. By using Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art's entrance gallery as a container for a scenario and by instructing a group of performers with a simple set of rules, defining how they move and how they interact with their surroundings, Jetty's Mod, explore the possibilities of an emerging narrative. buffer, swoosh can be thought of as a simulation or a social experiment, with the aim of conjuring a scene somewhere on the film-historical spectrum between Bresson's Pickpocket and Tarkovsky's Stalker. It's build up as a co-workers team building event between the performers. The performers are asked, just by being present, to become the performer – or the inhabitant – of a narrative that, among other things, seeks to connect the complex and tactile choreographies of Pickpocket with the more arcane atmosphere in the zone from Stalker as the line between the performer and the audience blurs out. Within the unregulated zone in Overgaden, Jetty's Mod activates this zone as a cinematic scenery in order to emphasize the aesthetic potential in the emergent patterns of crowds and to let chance encounters become part of a more meaningful and coherent narrative whole.

Video documentation of the performance installation: