Site specific 'Places of Act'
the former Federal Assembly
- new building of the National Museum
JÁN MANČUŠKA
The Invisible – Acting In Sequences
CZECH PREMIERE
16th October 2009 from 8 p.m., the staircase of the former Federal Assemblyt building
In Czech language!
The Invisible – Acting In Sequences is a performance adapted for space of the staircase of the former Federal Parliament building. A story where the main character suspects people around him of being played and staged is divided into five parts situated individually on the platforms of the staircase. The parts are created by actors who tell their segment of the story. The main character is therefore represented by a different actor in each part. The hero suspects his close friends, family and himself in the end. The same situation keeps repeating - the audience experience it being face to face to actors. The performance for 8 actors situated on the staircase has been played with great success in Bonniers Kunsthall in Stockholm as a part of the Time and Again exhibition and in Frankfurter Kunstverien in Frankfurt as a part of the transit: Auditorium, Stage, Backstage – An Exposure in 32 Acts exhibition.
Ján Mančuška (1972) is an artist who works with many media. In previous years, he dealt with text installations where he used a text as an element organizing space. His work has shifted to particularizing of film and motion pictures. Recently, he has focused on performances where the concern lies in a structure of a story and experiments with a language, in both cases there is a strong relation to space where his performances take place. People could see his works in Kunsthalle Basel, tranzitdisplay gallery in Prague and in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His recent performances were Reverse Play that was staged in cooperation with the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen as a part of the U-Turn exhibition and Občanská činohra/Civic Drama that was a part of the GASK festival in Kutná Hora.
