CMMN SNS PRJCT in Poznan
May 16, 2012 in Culture Centre Zamek, Residences 2012
Among the guests invited to Poznań by Angelo Romano, a member of the MPRA residency programme, are Laura Kalauz and Martin Schick. The performance artists’ new project “CMMN SNS PRJCT”, which combines theatre and dance, will have its premiere in Poland.
Welcome to the world of “common sense”
Kalauz/Schick’s artistic activity centers around the presence and functions of a medium as a means to unite different worldviews and emotions. Their latest performance, received enthusiastically among others by the audience of Berlin Freischwimmer festiwal and the theatergoers of Oslo, Vienna and Buenos Aires, employs a comic convention of a commercial exchange to pose questions about everything generally called common sense (which inspired the show’s title). The artists, confronting the normal and the abnormal, point to the sphere which goes beyond social relations and the economic logic of profit. Their performance reaches the limits of its defining trait – fictionality, and evolves into a space for whimsical jokes, traders’ disputes and spontaneous reactions. Read the rest of this entry →
