GALLERY 2
WHAT HAPPENED?
SAMUEL SZWARCBORD
In late 2017, five large geometric shapes were worn across multiple locations. There was no warning of the performances and each of these locations had a different type of audience: passersby, participants and artists. These performances interrogated the relationship between the body and architectural space with the insertion of an art object into the public arena. The artist investigated the aesthetic and spatial qualities of bureaucratic and undesigned spaces as well as the visual activation of transitional or service areas within institutional buildings. With the performances complete, the work now shifts mode. What Happened? investigates the differences between the value of the artwork as original, as documentation, interpretation or re-making and re-presenting.
