Horizons (re-revisited), 2024
Kasko, Basel (CH)
Sound performance, 26’00’’
[1] With the sound performance Horizons (re-revisited) (2024), artist Lissy Willberg continues to investigate the question whether performative acts can be captured and relived. The audio piece interweaves performance practice and artistic research about archival strategies for the performative. The work utilizes audio description as a central method and explores its artistic potential.
[2] Horizons (re-revisited) is an adaption of the sound work Horizons (2023) developed for the Snippet Live Feature Festival. This piece continues to be based on the script and video documentation of the performance What is the horizon more than two curved lines lovingly embracing you (2023).
One of the two sits down on her knees
and stretches her upper body.
The other brings a small glass bottle to her face
and seems to drink from it.
She stands very close to the kneeling one now.
They bring their arms in contact, so that the right arm and hand
of the standing performer merge into the hands of the other.
A thin stream of water comes out from under the standing
performers hat and runs down her arm into the other’s hands,
dripping onto the stones and ground.
[3] Video: Samuel Bramley, Editing: Caro Eibl