OFF GUARD - KW 1.OG, 6BB

OFF-GUARD. KW 1.OG, BB6.
5' 15'' video piece / performance, 2010
Irene Izquierdo

In the summer 2010, I was one of the guards of the Berlin Biennale 6. During one of my shifts, I did a performance dismissing my duty as guard. The act consisted on facing one of the walls of the so called "White Cube" room (1st floor) in the KW Institute for Contemporary Art during 5 min, until my alarm clock rang.

The video piece consists of the documentation of this performance with text showing the compiled thoughts and observations about my condition as a performing guard, the visitors usual behaviour and the visitors turning into performers in this particular space in which there are no other works to look at. This video tryes to blur the categorization of the 3 elements one can find in a museum or exhibition space: art, audience and guards.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Performance
• KW Berlin
• White Cube
• Berlin Biennale