Task 1 – 2019

Task1 is an hour long structured improvisational performance between Karolina Krynika, Jort Faber and Rebecca Lillich Kruger. The work developed as a necessity between the performers; negotiating the deteriorating conditions of work and culture, Krynicka’s vision for the work creates an aside to the onslaught of laborious pessimism that structures and shapes our daily experience. Under capitalism, our time is shaped by a necessity to produce; in Task1 time is shaped by a necessity to survive, the body a site for the exploration of the constraints of labor on the human psyche and how the distance created between workers becomes a space to explore ourselves. Are you moving yourself or are you being moved? Questions of authorship and authenticity arise throughout the work, the developing characters unsure they can trust their own impulses.

Beginning in office wear, the performers recite tales of exhausting and embarrassing work as they shed the collared shirts and trousers of their jobs; they explore and develop a relation of the body between them, a shared body conversing. A task becomes clear, to build a table, although none of them fully understands why this desire is so ingrained. This goal reveals the boundaries between them, the confusion of capitalist necessity and individual impulse. The aim of the seemingly absurdist and impossible task is to reveal a glimmer of utopia amid the desolation of labor: can we still reimagine? Where within these frames can we redefine? How do we find new ways to survive together?

Choreography:
Karolina Krynicka

Dancers:
Jort Faber
Rebecca Lillich Krüger
Karolina Krynicka