Drowning Piece – The Modern Dance Theater/The Museum of Modern Art/Swedish Television ‘Bildjournalen’

A woman inside a perspex cylinder slowly filling with water, and a man strapped to a chair, accompanied by music by Young Gods. We discontinued work on the piece due to the risk of an accident involving the woman submerged inside the cylinder.

Place

The Modern Dance Theater, December, 1991; The Museum of Modern Art, March, 1992; Channel 1, Swedish Television’s Bildjournalen, February, 1992.

Recipe

2 dancers, 1 Plexiglas cylinder, 1500 liters water, approx. 8 minutes.