A-Z OF MALA KLINE

NOTES ON NO-EXPERIENCE, A-Z OF MALA KLINE, is a lecture-performance by Slovene visual artist Jasmina Cibic. The work was commissioned by Performa festival 2011, Maribor, SI.

… Z
is for zoom. If we zoom into Mala Kline’s work, we see that it exists only to be experienced, lived, loved, hated, thought, felt and effectively consumed. Her trio of focal points are the stage (and its borders with the accompanying problematic), the artist performer and the public. She then weaves carefully constructed yet intuitive webs of possibilities for the reconfigurations of the latter and the possible points of debate that arise from such. The stage is doubted, the audience’s expectations questioned along with the space of communication between the two.