Mark
Warsaw 2024

8 performers, opera singer, pole dancer, composed score, choreography, corporate dress code, BMW G60 2024, suitcases, Polish takeaway food, iPhones, 01:00:00, 2024
in collaboration with Gloria Viktoria Regotz and Philip Ortelli as Public Transport Project
Crash Club, Warsaw, PL











The performance begins with a 15 minute walk through Warsaw in the warm breeze of a September evening. 8 performers dressed in smart work-appropriate attire walk through the city to the humming melody of their rattling suitcases until they arrive at the inner yard of what was once a residential pre-war building, which now stands empty and on this occasion is repurposed for a temporary exhibition. The inner yard becomes a stage - at its center a shinny, brand new, bright red BMW. The performers position themselves around and within the car and go on to act out seemingly minor sequences of mundane acts, which one could witness in daily fleeting moments of passing in spaces like a train station, airport, parking lot or the street. They stand around waiting; they hurriedly push past one another and the audience; they load and unload their suitcases into the vehicle with manic repetition; they engage with their phones or in minor conversations with one another; they quietly eat their meals in a closing scene resembling an awkward business lunch. But throughout minor disturbances hinder the flow of their mundane existence. One of the performers collapses only to begin an intimate slow-dance illuminated by the vehicle’s headlights, her crisp white shirt slowly turning dirty and wet. An electric feedback loop of a ghostly reverberating frequency takes over the space as it emits from the phones and the speakers of the car. An opera solo performance of Bach’s Erbarme dich, mein Gott. A moment of collectivity as all of the performers abandon their belongings and gather in front of the car, only to throw themselves at it in a desperate attempt to push it away, in a scene reminiscent of the fruitless struggles of sisyphus.

Performers: Hannah Endrulat, Katarzyna Salinger, Mattia Spich, Kuba Stępień, Malka Sultan, Emma Szumlas, Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas, Gloria Viktoria Regotz