Unseating from an Uncomfortable Chair, 2025
Home-based Performance, risograph print, 30cm x 42cm
“Unseating from an Uncomfortable Chair” (2025) presents a home-based, participatory performance that is mailed to the audience in an envelope.
The performance comes with a notation consisting of 14 images that explores the process of unseating from an uncomfortable chair. The notation is a documentation of my own practice of unseating. At the same time it can be used as a non-linear movement score without specific order or direction. It can be hung in the office as a reminder to practice unseating from a chair after long work hours. The movements can be performed alone or with others.
The work aims to inspire the investigation of the chair as a technical invention and as a symbol of power, Western modernity, and passive conformity. Through movement, participants can playfully interact with, protest against, and resist these concepts. The ancient posture of the squat, which I have explored closely in another previous project, plays a central, spiritual, and subversive role in this work.
The work seeks to bring performance art more into personal spaces. It allows individuals with chronic illnesses or disabilities to engage with the experience of performance art on their own terms and temporality, thus enhancing the accessibility and inclusion of the performance art and challenging ableist structures within theater and art venues.
The limited risograph prints (A2 in purple, A3 in blue) are also available at einBuch.haus