Lilith Performance Studio presents a new total performance by the American artist Ethan Hayes- Chute
Performance: Pläsnt Dschörnie : New Moves
22 Nov - 7 Dec, 2019
Participants: Erik Wall, Helena Ricci, Daniel Mårs, Irene Stenberg, Mats Henning, Sandra Stjernfeldt, Max Ehrling, Elin Lundgren, Isa Liljegren, Elisabet Stengård, Pether Lindgren, Adrian Kautsky, Kaisa Malmborg, Boris Nilsson, Louise Zurawski, Martin Lindblom
Lilith Performance Studio opened the fall 2019 with the total performance, Pläsnt Dschörnie – New Moves, a parafiction in the form of a moving company by the commissioned artist Ethan Hayes-Chute.
Pläsnt Dschörnie comes to life; the headquarters are populated by loading docks, transport trucks and numerous employees fulfilling various important roles backed by solid experience. Pläsnt Dschörnie is no ordinary enterprise, but one that is passionately – almost obsessively – concerned with the satisfaction of its moving customers, their emotions, and needs.
We do not know why, where, or when this moving company exists, or how it came to be. The company acts more as a state of mind than a physical space with its geographical location and customers being disconnected from a reality we can access.
For years, Ethan Hayes-Chute has been collecting advertisements left behind by moving companies in his Berlin mailbox. Their very specific and outmoded do-it-yourself designs became an obsession for the artist. It seemed like these flyers, made by countless moving companies in the city, were all following some sort of unseen formula. Were these flyers all made by the same person? Did every company simply copy the others? How would one choose between one or another of these repetitive adverts.
The artist felt compelled to ‘compete’ with these companies and began making his own adverts drawing on various sources of vernacular graphic design and outdated marketing jargon. With each flyer, the company’s inner psyche grew until it became an elaborate universe of make-believe. Starting from the process of these flyers and the fragmented information provided on them, Pläsnt Dschörnie was now being brought to life.
Visitors were welcome to go in to the HQ of PLÄSNT DSCHÖRNIE and view logical processes and absurd happenings that make up a regular day of operations.
Ethan Hayes-Chute (b. 1982, Freeport, Maine) often explores vernacular approaches to everyday life. As a start of a new work, he goes through a role-playing process to determine the facts and figures behind the characters whose spaces he envisions.