CHÃO [GROUND] 

CHÃO [GROUND] is a choreography-exhibition that articulates different levels of height and explores movement as a disruptive device in the dynamics of the traditional museum space. The idea resonates with artistic experiments from the 1960s and 1970s, and expands after the core question is posed: what if the entire experience had resulted from a body without any vertical dimension, near the ground? 

Exchange our hands with our feet, or our feet with our abdomen. Spin horizontally, drop in circles, crawl. CHÃO [GROUND] combines works and documents by artists who cause displacements in architectural, linguistic and institutional structures, with choreography, performativity and the score as bases for action. 

In this exhibition, conceived on the basis of the CIAJG’s construction site, architecture is formulated as a body that is cut, crossed and perforated, which, instead of widening distances, enhances articulations and rebounds between elevations and depths. 

The attention paid by this exhibition to that which lies “below/under” is also manifested in its interest in the rumours associated with performance works, the capacity of language to transmit what has happened over time, multiplying and perhaps distorting its narrative expressions. 

The exhibition design is based on the collection of materials previously used in CIAJG’s previous exhibitions, hitherto stored in the museum’s technical reserve. This collection of leftover objects returns to the exhibition space, creating a floor that is simultaneously cut and fold.

Location
Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (CIAJG)
https://www.ciajg.pt