When Walking…. is a performance and
intervention that took place at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery for Martinez’
MFA graduate exhibition. The piece involves seven artists interacting and
intervening the space during the opening reception and throughout the duration
of the show. The score to their gestures, which are partially choreographed and
partially improvised, is a selection of titles from past exhibitions that took
place at the gallery in that location, since 1990’s. After researching the Belkin's Archive Martinez selected text that spoke to the relationship between bodies and place, language and space, gender and geopolitics. The materials chosen, the
architecture, the bodies and the relationship amongst them provide the material
and signified structure over and within which the bodies perform: being at once
signifiers and signified. Through a playful and experimental collaboration, the
piece attempts to reflect upon the tension between performing and being
performed within a structure of signification, and artistic discourse.
With contributions from: Dustin Brons, Nelly Cesar, Luciana D'Anunciacao, Emilio Rojas, Jonathan Syme, and Michelle Wenstein.
Photo Credit: Maegan Hill-Carroll
