One Centimeter Broader / 2018

One Centimeter Broader, [a public performance] Designed and Directed by Nasir Malekijoo

Project Name: One Centimeter Broader

Location: Weimar Germany, May 2018

About the Performance:

The idea of pushing the walls itself has its own impression and meaning. There is no need to say that pushing the walls, heavy bodies and struggling as such, should remind us of a heavy dosage of foolishness at the same time anarchy. Historical characters like Don Quixote[Donkishot] who dressed in military / medieval uniforms to go to conflict. Here, the girl, however, reminds us of the very ridiculous struggle which obviously has no result but conceptually, within the mindset of the audience, a destructive element protesting the reality of her current absurdist existence. The notion of this performance would be aimed at the matter of her utopian actions, as we call it a performance, not real action. However, the role of these actions is to remember that a young girl with all her ideologies, beliefs and dreams which should have to be captured and find out of these walls. That’s why she is trying to change the reality of the geographical bodies and its fixed distances.

She, silently, repeats herself within three acts, the similar, and absurdist gestures during the frame of all three acts force the onlooker to possibly repeat the behavior of the performer. Where the audience is opened up to exploring the new certain keywords from the beginning of Act One up to the end of the Third Act. Act one is a time to comprehend what is fundamentally happening during and with the performance. It’s spacing, and location, while also getting essentially acquaintance with the performer’s output and bizarre behavior.