Zahra
Fuladvand
Tollas Performance Exhibitions
Exhibiting artists/players: Adrienn Dorsanski, Adrienn Kiss, Zahra Fuladvand
Guest performer: Mozes Zoltan
Duration: 15 minutes
The hegemony of vision, which seemed obvious since Rationalism, has been questioned by most twentieth-century philosophers because of rising doubts about appearances and illusions. Through vision, the space in which we move is not perfectly perceptible in every situation. These were the starting points that inspired us to develop a performance reflecting space perception's complexity. What could be a better example of the presentation of muscular and tactile senses than game and sport?
This is how we came up with our concept of a badminton game - and the installation of the associated court- in which we play unusual ways by variously interfering with some of our senses, thereby directing attention to alternative ways of sensing space. The participants of the group also show individual works related to the topic.
Tollas as a performance art is a social game, an encounter between the performers and audience, an invitation to explore a traditional game with a new space dimension where the normal perception of it is changed and the performers and audience create and play it together in new ways.