Patrick Krawczykowski is interested in the rules. Establishing them. Playing by them. But as that saying informs, a certain road is paved with good intentions… Slow announces a new flavor to its offerings, an evening of performances organized by Patrick Krawczykowski, including work by Kirk Faber, Courtney Mackedanz, Hillary Schofield, Chottip Nimia-or, Jaeuk Song, Jais Gossman, and Savannah Cipriano. Friday, September 16, 7 p.m.
As Patrick approached artists, his grounding shifted, his rules were sidelined, softened, or fudged. In short, he cheated. Rather than soft pedal the soft-pedaling, it has became the point of the evening.
Each performer works like Patrick organizes. Chottip consults Miss Manners and really wants to remain courteous, to put you at ease and to show the proper form. Jais has set his sights on a humbler aim—he simply wishes to make it through the night without peeing the bed. Kirk harnesses the history of performance; trading danger and starvation for comfort and laziness. Savannah and Courtney are movers and shakers, but each works through her gestures in ways we forget that we are viewing something essentially structured as a dance. Hillary and Jaeuk set up simple objects and structures that elude the need to do anything we call performance.
In short the evening is about that very human tendency to get away with something, to cut a corner, and to celebrate it the right way, because damn it—we pull it off.
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