Work within the context of ''perform interdependency'' project, a co-operation between Athens School of Fine Arts, Kunshochschule Kassel, and the BA Arts and Media at ZurichUniversity of Arts. Each participant had to develop an art work, individually or collectively. I made a group of manuals, where the most important element was that everyone who wanted to exercise , had to do it together with other people and not individually.
Gym is a place that obliges you to exercise: a world with its own rules, designed to facilitate a relatively constant and exclusive consentration on the performance of the prescribed physical activities. A non-place of apparent socialization, where ready-made identities are being produced.The legitimacy of physical-recreational comes to be found directly on the needs and desires of the person who carries them. So, in other worlds, gym or fitness is presented as an expression of the individual's will. Its like it provides an opportunity for authentic expression of the individual, and above all a way of having fun, relaxing, taking your mind off things, being revitalized.In gym's, trainers ask people to concentrate on their own bodies during exercise and in a way they manipulate the form of the work out or the sequence-the form of the exercises that the individuals are called to follow. Also, the practises of the body are distributed in functionally diffentiated areas within the gym center: they're areas for exercises, differing in relation to the activities that take place in them, there are chancging rooms, saunas and in the bigger centers, swimming pools and other facilities for bady care. Once you pass through the entrance, and the noise of the street is muffled, you find yourself in a seperate and protected environment. Using a variety of different architectual solutions, each gym defines its boundaries in its own way and characterizes its style and atmosphere. How could a gym without any mirrors or equipment be. At this point, most people would probably think or imagine something like going for a run or yoga in the park but that's not what I have in my mind. My perspective is more like creating a new situation by using some of the gym's methodology.
Using GYM'S language, I create a set of instructions in the form of a manual. Instructions that are neutral, cold, paradox, useful and relevant only to a specific exercise. Through these instructions the bodies aren't used as instruments to achieve a fitness body or to improve the figure, but they are used as parts of a workout machine. All the bodies are building- working out together. In a typical scene of exercise, the gym clients work out together, each focused on his or her own body: the bodies next to them become, to some degree, neutral and innocuous, useful and relevant only to the exercise. But not in this manual. For each exercise, there is a different composition, wherein each time the most important element in that all the participants produce together and not individually.
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