temporary inhabitants / HABITANTES TEMPORALES
During two months Valeria was giving a coaching project to a group of performers in Buenos Aires, at the house that will become a new interdisciplinary and collaborative space: OIHOY
Since May 2011 it became a project of collaboration that will be presented during the opening of the house to the community in July.
The process took place through the whole transition of the house that became a constantly mutatting working site, from being a family home to being a new cultural semi-public space.
At this stage the project is looking at different levels of inhabiting: from inhabiting our own bodies, to inhabiting different kinds of rooms, to inviting other to inhabit with us, to looking at social housing projects...
We thank the geneorisity of the house as a provider of questions about our presence and as the container of past and future ways of inhabiting.
We are Patricia Hayward, Paula Sacharias, Paula Colangelo, Florencia Martínez, Lucía Fernandez Moujan, Laura Tabachnik, Gabriela Paolillo and Valeria Primost
Temporary Inhabitants is a dance installation created by Valeria Primost in collaboration with six other dance makers in the context of the Temporary Home in Kassel, Germany, during the period of Documenta 12.
The space propossed as an alternative home for artists in Kassel during the mega exhibition of Documenta 12 , gathered audiences and artists of all backgrounds. As the gathering place of such a diversified community, The Meeting Point propossed there the experience of the body as a by passer through the existing art exhibitions, giving the place a new layer of experienced emotional and physical history.
The house, part of a former hospital, rented especially for this period counted with seven different rooms, a kitchen and a toilet.
The performance developed through simultaneus events happening in the different rooms designed and performed by each dancer, each space created a different and very specific story and by moving through the spaces, dancers moved the stories and the audience from one reality to the other. Audience able to move through stories at their own pase, experienced the meaning in diverse ways and relationships as they made their own individual choices, transforming and affecting the spaces they went through by their own presence.
Idea: Valeria Primost . Performance: Yuko Sato, Svenja Rohde, Johanna Chemnitz, Teresa Isabella Meyer, Chih Lihn Chan, Nannette Werthman and Valeria Primost. Potographs: September 7th 2007, from video by Sven Selbert
