| Rite of Spring |
| Katarzyna Kozyra |
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Rite of Spring
The work of the Warsaw-born artist, Katarzyna Kozyra, has expanded over the years from sculpture to performance. This time-related form of presentation opens up completely new possibilities of expression for her: vocal expression, costumes and narration that often come from a world of fairy tales but then build up the dramatic and lead into the absurd. The video installation "The Rite of Spring" that will be shown in Busan refers most clearly to the dance and the music of Igor Stravinsky and more specifically to their interpretations by famous choreographers like Vaslav Nijinsky whose original choreography is in fact regarded as lost. There exist thus "only" reconstructions, which gave Katarzyna Kozyra the motive for reconstructing the "sacrificial dance" herself into a circular movement of the dancers around the victim. The videos are installed in a circular form as a formal correspondence to the circle of dancers. The observer stands in the middle of the installation and becomes, in turn, a part of it.
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