I fell for a building
• Performance, 2016
• Link to the video
• Performed during Artel Residency, Tifa Working Studios, Pune, India
• The artist climbs the crumbling surface of a century-old building, metaphorically referring to patriarchal systems and structures of thinking. Attached to this building with a harness and a black rope, the artist walks on the margin of the unsteady old facade to draw the map of their journey with a tangled bundle of white rope as material to draw.
The role of the artist in this performance is to navigate the building, connect different levels of its structure with the white rope and record the path. In the meantime, the most vital matter is to maintain balance and prevent falling while disentangling and unwinding this rope.
In the title “I fell for a building” the verb falling for refers to two separate meanings. One is to be tricked into believing something that is not true, and the other is to start loving something or someone. Meanwhile, the possibility of physically falling from the building is a third omnipresent emotion and significance throughout the performance.
