here comes a bride.part2

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here comes a bride.part2

Perfomence

 

The Natanzon Nightclub, Downtown Haifa, Israel

December 2011

 

A night club, six large screens, a cage,

a bar, and art.espionage members

 
 

“here comes a bride #2” took place in a closed space creating a mechanism in which a wide range of bridal activities, their photographic images and projections broke down the space, leading to the loss of its architectonic structure.The mechanism built upon the six group members dressed as brides was comprised of six bridal stations. At each station, one bride was performing a different simple action: eating, singing, waiting, dancing in a cage, sleeping on the bar. The stations were based on characteristic nightclub activities and were located in the periphery of the space. In between the physical station were virtual stations which were presented as large screens duplicating each physical station on the opposite side of the space.

 

To the sound of a repetitive scream shout out of the waiting bride, each physical bride moved to the next station, creating a circular movement in the space. During the hour of the performance the rate of the screams grow closer and faster, making the brides run from one station to the other, to the point of no stopping at all.

 

The viewers were located in the middle of the events, observing the twelve bridal stations at the same time, without being able to implement them.

 

The performance created a vortex of movement of brides (real and virtual), viewers, sounds and actions; all of these broke down the space and caused the loss of its architectonic structure.

 
 

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Bride eating chicken

 
 

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Bride on the bar

 
 

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Bride in a cage

 
 

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Bride in the toilet

 
 

b24

Singing bride

 

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Waiting bride