Equipment Uses, 2024 – A performance in nine parts.

Over a four-hour period, sculptural arrangements were installed in the BaseSpace at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Intermittently, performers, some trained dancers, some not, would interact with these sculptural apparatuses by following a given instructional text, resulting in choreographies made in real time.

The arrangements consisted of crafted unfired clay forms and collected objects. While situated within a language of poetics, the sculptures elicit a skewed sense of recognizability and functionality. Through instruction and improvisation, the objects—defined here as “equipment”—ask performers to negotiate how to perform, or not perform, within constructed structures

Performed by Jarah Adams, Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez, Hannah Marcus, Zhenyu Tao, and Sunguen Silver Kim.
Documentation by Philipp Groth.