Consequences p5 are presented to the public by the answer to the question, “what happens when a performer leaves?”. In the work, the author explores the presence and absence of the performer in space and time through the coexistence of her own body and textiles. Consequences p5 is a transdisciplinary project that, through its treatment of space and time and presence and absence, forms a link between performative and visual art. Does the absence turn the performance into some kind of exhibition or a performance without a performer?
The author focuses on the multidisciplinary connectivity of one’s own body with the textile medium, on the relationship between the living and the non-living and their coexistence. The textile objects created in the process remain after her departure, their materiality does not change, but they record the author’s existence before the time of her departure. Time before a certain start. There are traces that remain. Consequences p5 want to achieve the transformation of performative art, marked by transience and uniqueness, and thus move it into the field of visual art, which allows living in space and time. But where, if at all, is the boundary between them drawn? The work seeks to answer all of the above questions. Consequences p5 are at the same time photo documentation of previous projects with the common title Consequences.
Urška Medved is a young multidisciplinary artist who began her artistic career at the Qulenium cultural association. With her solo and group works, she has presented herself in Slovenia and abroad. She completed undergraduate studies in Textile and Clothing Design at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering at University of Ljubljana. During her studies, she went on a study exchange where she began to explore the connectivity of performance and textile art. In recent years, she has implemented four major projects in this field, Home Sweet Home (2018, Sweden), Leteči Horizonti (2019, Slovenia, India), Sledi (2020, Slovenia) and Posledice/Consequences. She is currently working and creating at KUD Qulenium Ljubljana.
Production: Carnica Institute, BIEN, TAM-TAM, KUD Qulenium
Co-production: KD Qulenium, Pekinpah
With support: Mestna občina Kranj, Ministrstvo za kulturo, JSKD
