60 Minutes Of Opportunism
(2010)
After a series of successful prize winning group pieces that toured internationally (While We Were Holding It Together (2006), Playing Ensemble Again And Again (2008), Working Titles (2010)) with 60 Minutes Of Opportunism Ivana Müller embarks on a journey of a solo performance.
In 60 Minutes Of Opportunism Ivana Müller deconstructs her own show and her own body while offering an exhilarating performance that invites the spectators to share their questions about the codes of representation, place of the authorship and a role of a public speaker.
While standing live and alone on stage (for the first time since 2002) Ivana Müller reflects on the act of performing, on being public and being “live”, using her own body and her presence as a canvas onto which spectators project their expectations.
Taking the opportunity that the time on stage can offer her, Müller constructs a network of thoughts and reflections on her position as an artist, her condition of being watched, her tools and strategies of “re-creating” herself here and now on stage. 60 Minutes Of Opportunism focuses spectator’s gaze on a body that is present yet vulnerable, uncertain and “unfinished”, the body that changes statuses from being physical, symbolic, political, entertaining and potentially dangerous.
In 60 Minutes Of Opportunism Müller examines ways we watch: one-selves, each other’s, and the “others”, tackling, often with humour, the conventions that we live by.
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By and with Ivana Müller
Artistic collaboration Agata Maskiewicz, Paz Rojo, Jefta van Dinther,
David Weber Krebs, Gaëlle Obiégly, Inge Koks, Bill Aitchison, Thomas Brosset
Sound design Nils De Coster
Light design Martin Kaffarnik
Technique Martin Kaffarnik & Ludovic Rivière
production I’M’COMPANY coproduction Ménagerie de Verre (Paris, FR) within the framework of the Studiolabs
support Performing Arts Fund NL and Amsterdams Fonds voor podiumkunsten
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