on the road : enigma of a litmus test - coop d’etat
Caterina Verde and Pasha Radetzki
Live stream via Happening Live for Hope Sandrow’s, on the road open air studio spacetime
A chair is a place to sit. It doesn’t take you anywhere.
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Caterina Verde and Pasha Radetzki perform Enigma of a Litmus test- coop d’etat. in Hope Sandrow’s open air studio shinnecock hills, August 7 and August 15, 2010. Live Streamed. Image from livestream
Filmed by Ulf Skogsbergh.
Caterina Verde as Marie Antoinette
Pascha Radetzki as Native
Enigma of a Litmus Test - coop d’etat
Concept: Caterina Verde and Pasha Radetzki
Video and stills: Ulf Skogsberg and Hope Sandrow
The chair is the thought. The chair is a place to sit; it’s not taking you anywhere and yet implies a resting place. However, the resting place becomes a confinement if you cannot or do not get out, inertia may set in; chair-potato type of behavior encourages a belief that the chair is actually supportive.
Caterina Verde, 2010
Amid Hope Sandrow's plein air studio lies a bucolic universe of a cultural hierarchy, a setting for interaction between people and the natural world. References to prehistory proliferate not only through the flock of Padua chickens living freely there but also amidst the plantings in this realm.
Language -- our senses -- a flourish of surface titillation -- threaten to take us to the depths of our psyche and spin us around -- embellishing and fluffing the chantilly on top while noting the fundamental dark matter below. Fluff versus Stuff. The thought and the chair. In this performance, the much confused and overused iconography of a certain queen is exemplified in “decorative language” versus the implied notions of the Native. Hence, the enigma of a cultural litmus test. motion - words - video. This is a collaborative work of Strange Positioning Systems: Caterina Verde with Pasha Radetzki (action, words and video) inspired as well by Hope Sandrow’s work and environment.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Caterina Verde
Pasha Radetzki
on the road events (chronological)