On Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 5 p.m., we invite you to MGBS for Iva Suhadolnik Gregorin: The Tape.
45 min, 2025, universal language, free enter
The Tape is a participatory performance that explores the tension between proximity and distance. Inspired by Italo Calvino's The Distance of the Moon (1965), where the full moon gets so close to the Earth that people can climb it from boats using ladders. The work reinterprets gravity as a force that not only acts between celestial bodies but also as a force of human desire. In Calvino's story, when the sailors find themselves on the moon, they feel the changing forces between the two worlds - the familiar gravity of the Earth disappears, and it is replaced by the moon's attractive force. Here, the tape becomes a metaphor for this fragile attraction: a material that binds but also releases, measures, and holds in place. Like the ladder in Calvino's story, the tape is both a bridge and a bond - a way to solidify fleeting proximity or as its remnant - a sign of separation. Between the earth and the moon. Between you and me.
The event is part of the performative program curated by Ana Grobler, Sebastian Krawczyk.
You can read more about the exhibition Places for Deliberation: Barbara Kozłowska here.