PROJECT FOR NOTHING
PERFORMANCE/2019
The three of us talked for three days about our obsessions, intentions, and current projects. We questioned whether we should try to find a point where our projects could converge or simply exist together. In the end, we decided that each of us would continue working on our individual obsessions, but that we would occupy this limited space together.
Maybe it’s a performance. Maybe it’s just 30 minutes of our lives—and yours—live. You are invited to pass through with minimal preparation and maximum awareness of the present moment: an ongoing dialogue that starts nowhere and ends nowhere.
We would like to share this experience as it is, as literally as possible. An open body, an ongoing process heading toward something still ambiguous and obscure. An unfinished project aiming for nothing. The invisible elements between us—the space, the heat, the air, the gravity—and, most importantly, what’s inside our minds, behind our presence. Through each of our obsessions and questions, we engage in an act of dialogue or reaction, breaking distances for a moment. When coincidence brings us together to share our thoughts, to find a form, to do something independently, transgressively, spontaneously, and abruptly.
Sohair Sharara focused on editing the recordings and videos of our conversations from the three-day workshop.
Salina Abaza spent her time sketching feathers and filming. Later, she attached one of the feathers to her last personal object—something she had kept from Syria, where she grew up. The two objects became stuck in the fan in the room.
Event Text
It began as a call for collaboration. Two other artists joined the project, agreeing to work together for nothing.The three of us talked for three days about our obsessions, intentions, and current projects. We questioned whether we should try to find a point where our projects could converge or simply exist together. In the end, we decided that each of us would continue working on our individual obsessions, but that we would occupy this limited space together.
Maybe it’s a performance. Maybe it’s just 30 minutes of our lives—and yours—live. You are invited to pass through with minimal preparation and maximum awareness of the present moment: an ongoing dialogue that starts nowhere and ends nowhere.
We would like to share this experience as it is, as literally as possible. An open body, an ongoing process heading toward something still ambiguous and obscure. An unfinished project aiming for nothing. The invisible elements between us—the space, the heat, the air, the gravity—and, most importantly, what’s inside our minds, behind our presence. Through each of our obsessions and questions, we engage in an act of dialogue or reaction, breaking distances for a moment. When coincidence brings us together to share our thoughts, to find a form, to do something independently, transgressively, spontaneously, and abruptly.
Gestures
In the course of our dialogue, Samuel Nashaat became absorbed in making a kite. After completing it, he attempted to make it fly, but it got stuck in a tree. He also tried to use a small keyboard, a gift from his 5th birthday, opening it up and experimenting with the electric circuit to produce sounds.Sohair Sharara focused on editing the recordings and videos of our conversations from the three-day workshop.
Salina Abaza spent her time sketching feathers and filming. Later, she attached one of the feathers to her last personal object—something she had kept from Syria, where she grew up. The two objects became stuck in the fan in the room.
©Andrea Tall