Never this close - site specific performance by Georgi P. Pavlov

site-specific performance

27/01/2023

"Never this close" is a site-specific performance by Georgi P. Pavlov, part of the project we are not alone (#002).Most of the time when performing a live set the musicians and artists, even when improvising, leave some kind of recording at the end, as a final piece of the set. These recordings are afterwards sold, uploaded to different platforms, distributed on different mediums, etc. but most of the time they strictly keep the structure of author/audience/performance/creation. Thus, the experimental set often falls short of its radical potential - the most the audience can do is be intimately close to the performer.In performance we find the opposite, the only thing that remains after the performance is the documentation (narratives, photos, etc.)Through "Never this close", I aim to blur the aforementioned boundaries by asking the questions: what is the essential difference between performance as an art and the act of performing? Who is involved in the creative process when it is in front of the viewer's eyes, or between the viewers? Do we need to be alone and are we alone at all in the creative process? And to what extent is it possible to radicalise the process?The act aims to deconstruct and reconstruct the creative process of composing an experimental set, turning the space into a kind of pentolinium/instrument. The distance between form and content is contracted, allowing this form-content method to create a work that plays with the aforementioned boundaries.It is in this act that proximity (closeness) is a major factor in the recognition and realisation of the work. Its function is to bring the audience as close as possible to the creative process, totally changing the parameters of how we actually create, perform, and experience a live se, giving a sense of transparency and involving the "viewer".As well as questioning the basic categories of the experimental set, "Never this close" aims to reorder them in a new productive way, thus showing the presence of a host of other elements in the creative process - the productive lack of solitude, for example - that often remain hidden."we are not alone" is Georgy P. Pavlov's performance project, which aims to explore the possibilities of the game between formalism and content, process and work, and to what extent it is possible to radicalise the functions we are all so comfortable with, even when experimenting.