Saw Mill Gdansk_ """"

Saw Mill Gdansk_ """" is a performative intervention in a saw mill in Gdansk. In different scene’s Kitty Maria tries out different attitudes to become a part of a normal workday at a saw mill. During a tactile tour of the shop floor, a scene with female wrestlers and an exercise in exhaustion, the predetermined daily reality of work gets interrupted by a foreign logic, like the rules of fiction, the rules of sensory exploration or the rules of play. The video shots are part of a larger body of work in which Kitty Maria performs artistic actions in an economical context, to have the cultural ideas about performance coincide with industrial definitions of performance. Competing with their difference in logic, value and desired outcome.

The exhibition Femina Ludens encompasses themes of performance, potentiality. In it Kitty Maria blurs the boundaries between the anecdotal and the theoretic, the biographic and the academic in a proposition to reconsider our own motive to act. To become creatures of New Babylon, reappropriating our capacity to perform and enter a continuous realm of play.