REFLECT - NARVA is the 12th iteration of Andréa Stanislav’s ongoing global migrating community engagement public performance - Reflect, which is both a captivating public spectacle and a transaction of sharing between performer and public. For Reflect - Narva the question to be asked of the public participants, will focus on Narva and “a New Year's wish”. The walking performance will happen on December 31, 14:00-18:00, beginning on the Narva River promenade at 14:00 (below the Narva Castle), and continuing up the hill on Pushkin Street, City Hall, and Fama shopping mall. The performance will continue at NART New Year’s Eve.
Andrea Stanislav is currently a artist at The Narva Art Residency (NART). Narva became a touchstone as a significant and complex location, muse, and research subject in Stanislav’s work through her residency at NART in May 2022, which led to this performance Reflect, with Narva’s public as the focus. The sculpture garments are made from thousands of hand-made mirror pin-buttons, and digital photography. Performers walk traversing urban and venue settings until their wearable sculptures are diminished by giving away the mirrored buttons (one at a time) to the public in trade for each individual’s photograph — and an answer to a site-specific question that is recorded by audio. Each garment begins by being entirely covered with thousands of mirrored buttons Each button is 1” in diameter, handmade, with silver reflective mylar. The buttons reflect the environment as the performers walk. After the walk, the digital photos collected by the performers are made into black and white “portrait” buttons and are attached to the garment sculptures -- replacing the open areas on the garments where the mirrored buttons once were. The idea behind the work is that the sculpture is giving away in parts to the public in trade for their photographs. At a later date, the walk may be performed again with the transformed sculpture garments covered in thousands of black and white portraits of all those who interacted with the work, reassembling the community onto the wearable sculpture, and/or the portrait covered sculpture garments are exhibited in a gallery, accompanied by the recorded audio of the participants' answers to the performance’s question.
Reflect has been performed globally including the (2013) Moscow Biennial, RU; The 2nd Environmental Biennial, Ii Finland; St. Petersburg, RU: New York City, Key West, Minneapolis, Fargo, Palm Desert, CA; and Frankfurt, KY. via an interactive sculpture/walk or dance choreography. Andrea Stanislav is excited to bring this work to Narva on New Year’s Eve 2024.
Reflect Narva
REFLECT - NARVA is the 12th iteration of Andréa Stanislav’s ongoing global migrating community engagement public performance - Reflect, which is both a captivating public spectacle and a transaction of sharing between performer and public. For Reflect - Narva the question to be asked of the public participants, will focus on Narva and “a New Year's wish”. The walking performance will happen on December 31, 14:00-18:00, beginning on the Narva River promenade at 14:00 (below the Narva Castle), and continuing up the hill on Pushkin Street, City Hall, and Fama shopping mall. The performance will continue at NART on New Year’s Eve.
Andrea Stanislav is currently an artist at The Narva Art Residency (NART). Narva became a touchstone as a significant and complex location, muse, and research subject in Stanislav’s work through her residency at NART in May 2022, which led to this performance Reflect, with Narva’s public as the focus. The sculpture garments are made from thousands of hand-made mirror pin-buttons, and digital photography. Performers walk traversing urban and venue settings until their wearable sculptures are diminished by giving away the mirrored buttons (one at a time) to the public in trade for each individual’s photograph — and an answer to a site-specific question that is recorded by audio. Each garment begins by being entirely covered with thousands of mirrored buttons Each button is 1” in diameter, handmade, with silver reflective mylar. The buttons reflect the environment as the performers walk. After the walk, the digital photos collected by the performers are made into black and white “portrait” buttons and are attached to the garment sculptures -- replacing the open areas on the garments where the mirrored buttons once were. The idea behind the work is that the sculpture is given away in parts to the public in trade for their photographs. At a later date, the walk may be performed again with the transformed sculpture garments covered in thousands of black and white portraits of all those who interacted with the work, reassembling the community onto the wearable sculpture, and/or the portrait-covered sculpture garments are exhibited in a gallery, accompanied by the recorded audio of the participants' answers to the performance’s question.
Reflect has been performed globally including the (2013) Moscow Biennial, RU; The 2nd Environmental Biennial, Ii Finland; St. Petersburg, RU: New York City, Key West, Minneapolis, Fargo, Palm Desert, CA; and Frankfurt, KY. via an interactive sculpture/walk or dance choreography. Andrea Stanislav is excited to bring this work to Narva on New Year’s Eve 2024.