Mutual Weight by Pieke Pleijers, performed at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam for Rietveld Uncut (2023)

Mutual Weight by Pieke Pleijers Performed at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam for Rietveld Uncut (2023) Duration: 40 minutes. Life begins and ends with being carried. It is a great physical unconditional virtue you can offer the other. However, there is also a limit to the weight we can carry as an individual. In this durational performance thirty people take turns carrying each other in pairs. When one is not able to carry anymore, the other takes over. They will continue to switch until both are no longer able to carry. The work focuses on how individuals form a collective that is able to accommodate others, as a radical act of inclusion that connects bodies and provides shelter. Performed by: Dominique de Martiis Agathe Lemaitre Romaine Gijsberti Hodenpijl Chaja van Kollem Max van Westerop Tabor Idema Siri Tvorup Pedersen Elsa Rubio Amar Delplanque-Maxwell Eliot Busca Tunde Dawkins Dorian Milovic Yara Piekema Liam Pleijers Jay Chia Henareh Melchior Koch Sara Frances Tompkins Karlo Štefanek Vasilisa Ikryannikova Shushu Sieberns Gabriel de Oliveira Minh Thang Axelle Maillet Anka Loladze Charlotte Dijkgraaf Guillaume Lamour Jakub Mikołaj Dragun Bence Ungvári Sound design Timon Persoon Contact: Pieke Pleijers is based in Amsterdam [email protected] instagram: @piekepleijers