Performance h 5.30 pm
Central portico, Zeughausareal, Zurich
Access from Kanonengasse 20 CH-8004 Zurich 

"In certain environments, our behaviors and movements are clearly defined. I know how to act in a shopping mall, at the beach, or in a train station. It would seem quite strange if I deviated from these expected norms. However, some places fall into a grey area without many predefined patterns of behavior. In these spaces, I feel to have the freedom to move and act as I choose, without feeling awkward.”

Cathy van Eck

In this work, Cathy van Eck introduces a specific action in the passage to the centre of the Kasernenareal and explores how this influences and transforms the space. Amplified by a sound system, the artist performs an almost ritualistic action that one might commonly see elsewhere. Her body works with the space in a dialogical dimension of correspondence through an interactive sound system that becomes a prosthesis of the body itself. In search for another place is a performance conceived as an archeological exercise in searching for the unseen aspects of places, hidden traces that exist wherever we are. 

The intervention is curated by Zaira Oram [Francesca Ceccherini]

bio

Cathy van Eck (1979, Netherlands) composes relationships between everyday objects, human performers, and sound. She is interested in setting her gestures into unusual, surprising or poetic relationships with sounds, mainly by electronic means. The result could be called performative sound art, since it combines elements from performance art, electronic music, and visual art. She has a teaching position at the Academy of the Arts in Bern, Switzerland. Her book Between Air and Electricity – Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments was published in 2017. She is a member of iii (instruments inventors initiative) and lives and works in Zurich.