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The story of a chair and a performer

Zandile Darko

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This is the story about a chair and a performer. A chair, which made it all by herself into unknown lands of furniture. Originally coming from natural materials, the chair leaves the conditions behind of being used as an object solely to sit on – until a performer has the naivety to think they could be friends in equally wanting to challenge the perception This is the story about a chair and a performer. A chair, which made it all by herself into unknown lands of furniture. Originally coming from natural materials, the chair leaves the conditions behind of being used as an object solely to sit on – until a performer has the
naivety to think they could be friends in equally wanting to challenge the perception of what’s supposed to be a chair. Recreating the hierarchies of subject/object their journey
ends with the possibility of a dialogue of a different kind. Having fallen into the mud, both the chair as well as the performer face their mortality in this existence. Does this allow them to have a closer perspective on each other? what’s supposed to be a chair. Recreating the hierarchies of subject/object their journey ends with a possibility of a dialogue of a different kind. Having fallen into the mud, both the chair as well as the performer face their mortality in this existence. This allows them to have a closer perspective on each other.

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