THE ANTIPRODUCTIVE SPACE 2016
Performance
Manifesta 11
Joint-Venture with the
Choreogrpher Mercé de Rande
Cabaret der Künstler - Zunfthaus Voltaire
Zürich 29.7.2016
The Anti-Productive Space stages a physical and conceptual entanglement between viewers and material. During the performance, long cords made from recycled and hand-reworked knitwear, originally destined for landfill, were woven throughout the gallery, immobilizing both spectators and space.
By reversing the function of clothing from protection to restriction, Jacomella Bonola transforms waste into a metaphor for the suffocating cycles of overproduction. Presented during Manifesta 11 in Zürich, the work embodies resistance through slowness and obstruction, reclaiming stillness as an act of critique within a culture obsessed with efficiency.
Photos: Stills