Mathematics of Enclosure [2012]
Performance: Federica DauriSculpture: Egon Schrama
Sound composition: Stan Verberk
Mathematics of Enclosure explores the relationship between body, constraint, sculptural structure, and sound. Created in collaboration with sculptor Egon Schrama, the performance unfolds within a structure of wrought-iron rods that circumscribes the body and defines its field of action. The sculpture is neither scenography nor a passive object: it determines the possibilities of movement while being continuously activated and transformed by the performer’s physical presence.
Within this confined space, constraint becomes a generative principle. Movement emerges through a continuous negotiation with the material properties of the sculpture, its weight, resistance, flexibility, and spatial configuration. The body adapts to the structure, pushes against it, passes through it, and discovers possibilities of movement that could not exist independently of the object.
The sculpture also functions as a musical instrument. As the body moves through and against the structure, the iron rods collide, resonate, and vibrate, producing the sonic material of the performance. Sound does not accompany the choreography; it emerges from the same physical encounter that generates movement.
Body, sculpture, movement, and sound become part of the same physical system: the body activates the object, the object redirects the body, and their encounter produces both movement and sound. In Mathematics of Enclosure, limitation is approached not as an obstacle to movement, but as a generative condition , a boundary against which the body can discover other ways of moving, listening, and inhabiting space.