Alex Baczynski-Jenkins
Untitled (Holding Horizon)
© Untitled (Holding Horizon), Alex Baczyński-Jenkins – Performance part of Meetings on Art, 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Courtesy Delfina Foundation and Arts Council England © Riccardo Banfi ©
© Untitled (Holding Horizon), Alex Baczyński-Jenkins – Performance at Frieze Artist Award, London, 2018. Courtesy of the artist © Spyros Rennt ©
© Untitled (Holding Horizon), Alex Baczyński-Jenkins – Performance at Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon, 2023. Courtesy the artist © Herlander Almeida ©
Choreography, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
Created in collaboration with and performed by Aaa Biczysko, Ewa Dziarnowska, Rafał Pierzyński, Ronald Berger, Sigrid Stigsdatter
Developed with Aaa Biczysko, Rafał Pierzyński, Sigrid Stigsdatter, Tiran Normanson
Live sound and lighting, Krzysztof Bagiński
Sound research, Jana Androsova, Krzysztof Bagiński, Tobias Koch, Filip Lech
Styling advice, Rafał Domagła
Studio management, Andrea Rodrigo
Acknowledgements, Bily Morgan
Production manager, Ola Knychalska
Developed as part of Kem's residency at the Ujazdowski Castle Contemporary Art Center in Warsaw
Commissioned for the Frieze Artist Award 2018, in partnership with the Delfina Foundation, presented at Frieze Projects curated by Diana
Campbell Betancourt
Administratrion studio Sarie Nijboer
Distribution Something Great
The Carreau du Temple and the Festival d'Automne à Paris present this show in coproduction
Untitled (Holding Horizon) is an invocation, both present and timeless, of gestures, encounters and affections of a queer commons. This choreography continues Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ engagement with structures and politics of desire.
Through sensual, alienated movements, and the box step –a step used in several social dances–, synchronization, pleasure and alliance coexist with disorientation, limitation and loss. The performers glimmer in monochrome lights, spiraling through space and time in the swing of a dance. Here, the box step is a vessel for intimacies to surface, and for the limit as material. A subtle choreography of desire emerges through the shifting dynamics of relations, self-enactment and interdependence, exploring contact in its physical and emotional dimensions. Negotiating with the variations of light and sound mixed live, the repetitions and perpetual returns, produce evolving perceptions and associations: a memory of a rave, a ghostly gathering, a celebration and mourning, a militant congregation, a pastoral fantasy.This 3-hour piece relies on a durational experience. The audience will be able to enter and leave the space throughout the performance as they wish.