Once Over, 2010 (performance)
Partnered in Jerusalem by Razan Akermawi.
Vlatka Horvat was born in Croatia but is currently based in New York. For the Jerusalem Show she presented her performance piece Once Over. The first incarnation of Once Over was developed and performed with Noémie Solomon and different versions of the piece are currently being worked on with several other collaborators. In Jerusalem her partner in the performance was Razan Akermawi and it was performed at the Austrian Hospice of the Holy Family. The first performance was on Wednesday 6th and the second performance will be on Saturday 9th at 7.00.
Once Over features two performers sitting at opposite sides of a square table negotiating, as if playing a game of strategy, but using only their hands moving on top of the surface of the table. This amplified tabletop exchange is recorded by a camera suspended over the table and projected live on a large screen behind them. The viewers are thus simultaneously witnessing two planes of activity – the life-scale of two people locked in an intense and spontaneous interaction, and the micro negotiations taking place between their hands. The unfolding drama is accompanied by a complex amplified vocabulary of taps, swipes, thuds, scratches and bangs as the hands make contact with the surface of the table.
The human drama, juxtaposed with its disembodied representation on screen, allows the viewer to be both present in the life-scale of the performance or to escape into the pure audio visual choreography of the screen.
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