Actions/Part 2: Sara

Proposed Actions:

Day 1: main square of Zagreb Trg bana Jalacica

scales/bodies/heights

working with the participants in solo and small group form (depending on number) to relate to the varying forms and systems present in the square: larger-than-life equestrian statue, surrounding houses, a skyscraper, and people walking accross the square.

I am interested in working with the body/movements as a means of measuring the space as well as feeling out what scale is. In order to do that we might count with our feet, hands, whole body along walls, surfaces, buildings (I also like the idea of touching architecture).  Also to work with being very small and very large through image and movement.  Perhaps taking on different body shapes in relation to the existing structures and placing ourselves in various positions that change the perception of the scale of things and our own bodies.  Also, to measure across the square, by lining up as a group and creating a moving spectacle across the square  (if enough people).

Day 2: short street called Krvavi most (Bloody bridge)

bridges/borders/fences

Here I am interested to work with flow, movement through a space, traveling through the space--from one side to another.  We would come up with various ways of walking through the space (alone and in partners) that alter the experience of the space--for example, walking sideways, backwards, in slow motion, etc.

Day 3: old botanical garden/serves as a division from the railroad tracks

silences/waits/(in)visibility

I am most excited about this day....

I would like to work with being invisible and also leaving a trace.  I like the idea of participants following people through the space and also collecting movement vignettes or tableaus of people waiting. I also like the idea of leaving a mark with chalk, tracing someone's pathway through a space, as well as re-performing the tableaus in different locations.

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These are all still quite open and will be further detailed on site.  I may also choose, once I arrive, to focus on one particular system (related to walking) at each site and see how that system changes with each site and what that says about a site.