Artists in this exhibition considered the ways in which performing and visual arts intersect, often documenting, reimagining, or restaging acting methodologies. The role of the actor, the figure of the performer, and their different perspectives on the construction of a character informed several projects in Chalk Circles, while others focused on the frictions of a body in a fictive/theatricalised space. The title of the exhibition pointed to Bertolt Brecht’s seminal parable of theatre, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, written in the United States in 1944.
The project featured works and new commissions by local and international visual artists who have used theatre, theatricality, performance, and performativity as a self-referential tool to feed the instability of such terms. Featured artists included Carola Dertnig, Dora García and Peio Aguirre, Adrià Julià, Joachim Koester, David Levine, Emily Mast, Silke Otto-Knapp, Santiago Roldos (Muegano Teatro), Catherine Sullivan and Kerry Tribe.
The project featured works and new commissions by local and international visual artists who have used theatre, theatricality, performance, and performativity as a self-referential tool to feed the instability of such terms. Featured artists included Carola Dertnig, Dora García and Peio Aguirre, Adrià Julià, Joachim Koester, David Levine, Emily Mast, Silke Otto-Knapp, Santiago Roldos (Muegano Teatro), Catherine Sullivan and Kerry Tribe.