Alex Baczyński-Jenkins: Untitled (Holding Horizon)

Untitled (Holding Horizon) is a choreography that continues Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ engagement with negotiations of desire, the materiality of gestures and affections of a queer commons.
Through sensual, alienated gestures and the box step – a movement used in several social dances – synchronisation, pleasure and alliance coexist with disorientation, limitation and loss.
The performers affect – and become affected by – the live mixed sound and light, while repetition and duration elicit shifting perceptions and associations: a memory of a rave, a ghostly gathering, a celebration and mourning, a militant congregation. In this altered state, the box step becomes a vessel.
Untitled (Holding Horizon) is a durational experience. The audience is able to enter and leave the space at their leisure.
Artist and choreographer Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ practice is concerned with the mediation of queer embodiment and relationality through choreographies of affect, empathy and intimacy.
Originally commissioned for the 2018 Frieze Artist Award, in partnership with Delfina Foundation, and presented as part of Frieze Projects, curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt.
Developed as part of Kem’s residency at the Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
Generously supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Cultural Institute.