Paper Lane

Paper Lane represents an act of resistance in the face of the digital revolution, the profusion of overabundance and high-speed and high-tech life, that destroy the silence necessary for meditation, introspection and reflection. This act is based on the observation of the need for a radical deceleration and is inspired by the book Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality by the German sociologist and philosopher Hartmut Rosa.

The performance Paper Lane was conceived during the creation of the show Mirage (2019) whose artwork is the result of a first collaboration with the visual artist Sophie Whettnall. Paper Lane was presented for the first time as part of Sophie Whettnall and Etel Adnan's exhibition La banquise, la forêt et les étoiles (The Ice Field, The Forest and The Stars), at Centrale for Contemporary Art in Brussels, as a fully integrated part of Mirage-displacement, a performative proposal presented in the course of Brussels Art Summit, which shifted the performance Mirage, from theatre to exhibition space.