Chasing a Ghost by Alexandra Bachzetsis: One Year Later

by Hendrik Folkerts

to exchanging someone for someone else. I don’t believe people are exchangeable, but this is—brutally—what happens to all of us, all the time. It’s the basis of all heartache and all impossible love, as well as all reality.”

Positioned at the threshold of multiple moments in histories of art, theater, and choreography, Alexandra Bachzetsis proposes the body as a conceptual and physical form that is at once medium, process, and materiality. Her pioneering work involves choreographies of the body and, in particular, the way that popular culture provides source material for gesture, expression, and desire as we continually create and re-create our bodies and the way we identify.

Within this, she cites and appropriates images, sound, and movements from both popular culture—ranging from online media and video clips, to television, fashion, and advertising—and the history of art, dance, and cinema, to scrutinize these systems of representation and further our understanding of the physical body as the site where culture becomes embodied knowledge and behavior.

CHASING THE GHOST BY ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS (EDITED BY THE ARTIST)
Please note: This video contains nudity and explicit content that may not be suitable for younger and more sensitive viewers.

—Hendrik Folkerts, Dittmer Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art

Chasing a Ghost is part of the multi-year performance initiative Iterations, which will continue in 2021 with Paulina Olowska’s Naughty Nymphs in the Courtyard of the Favorites.

Iterations is generously supported by the Society for Contemporary Art.