Ena Kantardžić and Sylvie Mayer: I promise, mute body

A two-person experiential exhibition of works by Ena Kantardžić and Sylvie Mayer. I promise, mute body will include generative choreography and performance led by Mary Ann Mayer.

The exhibition is a stage. The grand hall features seats for an audience, present and absent concurrently. The stage constructed for the exhibition is not only a literal one, but a conceptual one, that functions in the round, both through time and space. 

Kantardžić’s kinetic sculptures are stage tech or performance objects performing, hacked, while Mayer’s paintings depict the transitory space of the backstage, dressing rooms, and the Geist of performance. Kantardžić’s sculptures are in a continual choreographic process amidst Mayer’s paintings for the entire duration of the exhibition, setting the scene for a generative collaboration between machine, painting, and dance.