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performers: antje hildebrandt and elena koukoli
A Potential Structure is a 30 minute scripted performance with two female performers.
It uses the metaphor of construction to explore both social relationships and the making
of art objects. Ideas of love, power, and the ethics of relating to one another run through
the piece. Central to the work is an address of the relationship between work and
spectator, and how artwork is received.Over the course of the performance a number of different structures are built -and then
dismantled- out of breezeblocks, in configurations that recall Minimalist serial sculpture:
the work presents no object as outcome or endpoint, but proposes several potential
objects which become props for the bodies of the performers. The only object on stage
that asserts a literal authority, through its amplification of the performers' voices, is the
microphone.Several linguistic registers are used: quasi-academic discourse, the language of
intimacy, and audio recordings of unscripted conversations. As these different types of
language play out, we watch the performers take a number of positions in relation to one
another and with regard to the idea of ‘love,’ but no definitive resolution is reached.