‪#‎ASONE‬

NEON and Marina Abramović Institute are presenting “AS ONE”, 7 weeks dedicated to long durational performance, series of events, talks and lectures.

APT artist Monali Meher's   durational performance 'Riceville/ Whiteville (2006), is presented at ‪#‎ASONE at BENAKI MUSEUM in Athens. The performance video is part of the IMMATERIAL series.

The site-specific installation created by durational performance refers to the death ritual of the artist's origin. A growing landscape installation expands through performance and is a memory of ceremonial procedure relating to the cyclical movement of end and renewal.

The transitory structures were made with cooked rice, sand, and bricks on the spot where the area was under construction. Household utensils were used as moulds to form different shapes of cooked rice in this construction together with materials from that site and juxtaposed with the urban surrounding of modern architecture in Uithof, university town in Utrecht, Netherlands.

‘Rice’ as basic food is known globally. The act of cooking rice outside on the  open field with a primitive installation and organically built temporal structures is a significant contrast to the ‘civilized’ environment.  Possible change or damage in the newly built structure due to traffic, people or natural calamities during the performance was unavoidable. Transformations were organically adopted throughout the performance as the artist persisted in her act of making territorial landscape.