In Never Name the Shelf, Tiina Soot and Dorothea Zeyringer examine a notion of work which does not comply with the desire for a concrete result. The two of them observe the working process of assembling furniture with the utmost concentration and in the process shift the focus from the real aim of the procedure – the completed object – toward the sequences of movement for assembly.
Each hand movement is translated into linguistic instructions and makes the proximity betweenwork and worker clearly noticeable. A choreographic work sequence that revises the relationship between production and product.
Never name the shelf
Performance, 15 min., 2012
Concept: Sööt/Zeyringer
Performance: Tina Sööt and Dorothea Zeyringer
A production by Sööt/Zeyringer
Photos: Sööt/Zeyringer
With the kind support of Estonian Culture Endowment.
Performed at
Bone Performance Festival, Bern, 2017
Salzburger Performance Tage, Salzburg, 2017
Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse Vienna, 2017
Fresh Tanztage - Staatstheater Braunschweig, 2014
imagetanz at brut, Vienna, 2013
"Wir lassen sie einfach angelehnt” curated by Signe Rose at Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs, Vienna, 2012
Raw Matters at Schikaneder, Vienna, 2012