th dncr is the title of my installation and of a performance. The installation is about a hand-drawn dancing figure wearing a black suit: the dncr appears here and there on the walls of 6 pre-existing wooden cabins by inge vinck jan de vylder architecten: sometimes it is a video projection, sometimes a monotype on a mirror. It may happen that visitors moving through the space are included into the mirror artworks or as shadows moving between the projector and the walls: they will find themselves dancing and interacting with th dncr.
And then there is the performance. I am very much looking forward to the moment when the real dancing figure intercepts the light projection and enters in dialogue with the work; light and shadow, projection and physicality. Musicians Simon Specker and Mario Scarton alias Chico Cream will play improvisations with base and piano inside the wooden cabins. We will all wear a black suit – the same worn by the drawn figure of the video projections and the mirrors. For one night dancing is overcoming physical space with ease and breaking free of binary attributions while dancing. (Z.L)

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Courtesy for the three monotypes: Galerie Peter Kilchmann