What Shall We Do Next? (Sequence #2)

At the exhibition from July 4, 2018 to August 5, 2018

Gestures used to activate new devices are patented – for example, the »slide-to-unlock« movement patented by Apple in 2011. Julien Prévieux started to collect these specific movements in 2006. His assumption was that the gestures patented today are the movements we may all have to do in the near future: patents as an archive of gestures to come. To date, Prévieux has created three sequences of »What Shall We Do Next? Sequence #2«, which is on view in »Open Codes«, is a video made with six performers. They perform the diagrams found in the patents, considering patents as dance scores. Prévieux takes ownership of these movements and frees them from their practical function through choreographic abstraction.