Performances

In the signature Dadaist poem Ursonate (“archetypical sonata”, 1932), Kurt Schwitters used a repetitive, meaningless phrase in order to annoy audiences in the literary salons of the time. The poem has a structure similar to that of a classical sonata or symphony and can be understood as a kind of nihilistic satire where poetry is reduced to non-meaning, in a society that by itself seems to have lost all meaning. One hundred years after Dada, soloist Anna Pangalou brings Schwitter’s iconic work to The Performance Shop to make us wonder: how much has art changed since then, and whether we found the meaning after all. 

J[US]T 5- REDUX (from Latin reducere, "to bring back") interweaves a collective narrative of an artist as she traveled through various cities, looks back at her relationship with Athens, and questions her art. The work is a site-sensitive series of interventions around the concept of five: five performative actions as a promenade performance throughout the spaces of the Performance Shop, each designed to invite a dialogue between the artist, the audience, the space and the city journeys of the original J[us]t 5 series .