Isola-Ta is a space within a space.

A white island. Dispersed. In continuous transformation.

 

This work in progress is a circus installation where objects come to life. The rope becomes a framework for new realities. The body sculpts the imagination, weaving new worlds as the ceiling travels up and down. The room expands as it gets smaller. This serves not only as a technical mechanism but also as an active metaphor for how limitations, whether self-imposed, socially driven, or naturally occurring challenge us to find creative freedom in the most restricted circumstances. A claustrophobic feeling intertwines itself with a sense of freedom, strength, resilience and positivity.

 

In loving memory of the billions steps I talked and the trillion words I walked in the year of Covid. This circus installation portrays the intimate space of my living room in Budapest during the pandemic and displays the confined vertical space rope and I inhabited.

 

This project originated as a physical representation of my study and Masters’ thesis Freedom through Restriction at DOCH in Sweden (2020-2022). An artistic project which investigates movement, freedom of expression and the value of restrictions in creative processes, through my experience.

 

Even though Isola-Ta was born during the dark context of the pandemic, it comes to represent a place of opportunity, a lighter side of it. It is an oasis in the desert. The interaction with the rope, my circus medium and companion, is a symbol to remind us of the beauty of the vulnerability found within a practice that is not only based on strength, rather when stretched it is an art form through which to portray us as individual subjects, as human beings.

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The performance is intended for an intimate small public. all sitting on the floor in a half circle. Audience sits on ropes crocheted by myself since 2020.