OPENING: 

2 March 2017 – H 10.00 pm. 

Until 7 November.

WHERE: 

Xing – Bologna (ITALY).

Thursday 2nd March at 10 pm Xing presents at Raum Things a Person is Supposed to Wonder, performance by the canadian artist Bridget Moser (italian première). Her singular body of work embraces the spectre of failure as a primary aesthetic and conceptual departure point, through performing states of becoming or collapse, and eliciting sensations of being slightly ‘off’ or unreconciled.

Things a Person is Supposed to Wonder is a collection of short works that take on multiple forms and shift unpredictably between performative modes, texts, and sound. Seemingly improvised, but in fact carefully scripted, these hybrid works make use of bizarre interactions with everyday inanimate objects (a toilet seat, a coat rack, bath mats, a plunger) to articulate moments of anxiety, impatience, wrath, fury, change, loss, wickedness, and more. Moving between states of criticality, humour, and emotion, the resulting performance is at times entertaining, affective, and bewildering.