Zone X
Evamaria Schaller (SUAVEART)
ZONE X is a mobile and installation-based performance: a large pink X marks the action zone and creates a space for multiple participatory acts.
The X holds many meanings: on one hand, it can signify crossing something out – erasing it; or it can mark a place, a crossing of paths, or even represent a handshake. What places do we mark, and what traces do we leave on those marks?
Participants draw a golden envelope that contains instructions for actions to be performed together with performer Evamaria Schaller, within a three-minute time frame, marked by the sound of a bell at both the beginning and end.
The instructions relate to the theme of touch: all interactions explore different ways of touching – such as caressing, kissing, hugging, or carrying one another.
Touch is something many people currently miss or have lost. It also ties back to the Covid pandemic, which suddenly made touch dangerous. That behavior has lingered, especially among young people.
The ZONE X performance revisits this theme and attempts to bring interpersonal interaction back into the spotlight.
