Part of the exhibition The Real Thing?

Courtesy the artist and Starkwhite, Auckland

    

Alicia Frankovich is interested in the encounter between art and materia humana. She puts bodies into situations where they play out relations, often engaging with social conventions and rituals. Taking up the legacy of durational performance and its inclusion of ordinary movements such as walking and running, Frankovich transposes these postures into the exhibition space, intertwining contemporary formations from athletic preparation, cognitive labor and creative production.

In Free Time Alicia has choreographed a live series of ever-changing encounters with invited participants that enact a myriad of routines from their everyday or professional life: working on a laptop, reading a Kindle, yoga poses, actors coming from a recent performance to bow to a different audience, finishing a daily run or bike ride in the gallery. This landscape of quotidian bodies in motion re-contextualises actions from a myriad of contemporary work and leisure situations in unexpected ways, merging the role of the spectators with that of the participants.

Alicia Frankovich b. 1980, lives and works in Berlin.