Sylvia Schwenk Performance - In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people

A new work of participatory performance art by renowned intervention artist Sylvia Schwenk, conceived especially for Art Month Sydney 2011.  The work is intended to draw attention to ordinary events or actions that normally go unnoticed. The site was selected due to the extensive construction works extending the MCA and the participants-wearing matching yellow overalls, yellow hardhats, and black boots- will perform simple, repetitive steps appropriate to the work being done. 

Sylvia Schwenk was born in Germany and now lives and works in Sydney, Australia where she is currently a final year PhD candidate at SCA. Her practice is interdisciplinary and looks at the relationship between performance and the everyday, reflecting upon the significance and beauty of commonplace activities and spaces. Sylvia often creates socially based interventions performed in the urban landscape of different cities, using local participants who do not usually visit art galleries.

Through this disjunction people become more aware of the environment in which they routinely engage, seeing it in a different perspective. When you draw attention to something, there is a fracturing or shattering of the moment that existed immediately before. It is almost akin to breaking a spell, and you reveal something previously unseen. She directs and choreographs performances with a fun and light-hearted approach, to engender positive experiences for the performers and passers-by that unwittingly become actors in the s

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