TIME OUT – a participative performance by Margret Wibmer at Oude Kerk Amsterdam
18 July, 10 am – 6 pm (ongoing throughout the day).
Margret Wibmer is an Austrian conceptual artist based in Amsterdam. In her participative performances she uses wearable props and choreographic elements to create transient ‘realities’ that explore new strategies for connecting us with the world.
With her performance Time Out she invites us to rethink our relationship with time and explore Oude Kerk through the sensual. Wrapped in long black coats with oversized hoods that provide a shelter and make the body nearly disappear, participants are invited to lie down on the floor that consists entirely of gravestones, for as long as they wish. Wibmer reminds us of our own temporality and encourages the visitors to be more aware of their own presence and the presence of those around them in a nonreligious meditation that interrupts daily life.
Margret WIbmer’s participatory performance Time Out takes place in the context of ‘It’s OK ….commoning uncertainties’ a multi-year project by Jeanne van Heeswijk ‘. Circle 4, brought together by Gijs Stork and Karolina Wargin, sheds ligt on unknown relationships within and around the Oude Kerk based on the church’s many graves. This circle also features ‘Epitaphes insolites (ongewone grafschriften)’ by Frank Bruggeman.
