The performance ‘How Close to Hold the Mirror?’ continues Apparatus 22’s long term work that triggers critical reflection withing large groups of people. Unfolded in a performative participatory intervention where audiences are ‘categorised’ and invited to make choices, the work is looking at ‘questionnaire’ as a social sculpture.

A set of very different types of questions about art institutions – from fundamental to very niche, from humorous to poetic or irreverent – is a way to turn the focus of such a research tool from the results onto an engaging journey of going through a set of questions to think of paradoxes, urgencies and potentialities shaping the current modus operandi of an art institution.

As the title hints, ‘A Most Amazing Offer’ is an offer and also something hyperbolic, a performative provocation imbued with utopian thoughts and ready to be tested in adventurous institutions.

This performance gathers reflection and proposals on several of Apparatus 22 works that in time turned into metaphorical tools. These can further push processes of transformations within museums, or conjure such processes from a future golden era of institutional metamorphosis and ethical reconsiderations.

The performance will be conducted in English.

This event is part of ‘Institution(ing)s’, a programme funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Creative Europe. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.