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Alexandra Bachzetsis’s works have been shown around the world in major museums and theatres as well as biennials and festivals. The Kunsthaus Zürich already has a lengthy association with the artist, who was awarded the City of Zurich Art Prize in 2018. An early work by her was shown here back in 2008, and other performances followed in the ensuing years. Now, the museum version of her latest work, ‘2020: Obscene’, is receiving its première at the Kunsthaus. In it, she uses performance to …
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Alexandra Bachzetsis’s works have been shown around the world in major museums and theatres as well as biennials and festivals. The Kunsthaus Zürich already has a lengthy association with the artist, who was awarded the City of Zurich Art Prize in 2018. An early work by her was shown here back in 2008, and other performances followed in the ensuing years. Now, the museum version of her latest work, ‘2020: Obscene’, is receiving its première at the Kunsthaus. In it, she uses performance to explore the interdependencies between the ‘scene’– acting and staging – and the ‘obscene’.
Working with three co-performers in ‘2020: Obscene’, Bachzetsis explores the relationship between the staging of the excessive body and its consumption by the coveting gaze. The work investigates the possibilities of theatre in terms of seduction, attraction and games of sexual identity; and the performing body itself as a place of alienation and limitation of the human being. The performers are confronted with their own corporealities – with the contradictions between intuition and gesture, light and dark, score and script, as well as norm and form.
‘2020: Obscene’ by Alexandra Bachzetsis is both exhibition and live performance. In exhibition mode, the stage elements become surfaces onto which a three-part video is projected, while on 1/2 April the work will be performed live in the auditorium.
Supported by the Dr Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation.