This is a new commission for House Without a Maid, part of To Serve, a project conceived by Jorge León

(Brussels) and Simone Aughterlony (Zurich/Berlin) touring throughout 2010:

You take a seat. Your body is arranged around the edges of your own field of vision. There will be a shift of the look or a lowering of the eyes. I am standing nearby, taking care of the space, keeping things going and keeping time. Images play on the surface of a small screen. Brief glimpses out of the corner of an eye. What am I thinking, all day in the house? I am thinking, I am disappearing. Or I am something like your shadow, somehow always there. Alone and in your presence. You watch, I’ll just wait.
A short, live encounter offering each spectator a close-up moment, a slightly different picture - interrupted by the door opening, the audience replaced and another version beginning.
 

Touring

15-16 May: Kunsten Festival. Brussels
3-6 June: Alkantara Festival, Lisbon
29-31 August: Tanz Im August, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
10-13 September: Dampfzentrale, Biennale Bern
25-26 September: Rotterdamse Schouwburg

A ten-minute performance made for a small audience of only five people in a room for a short time, with the potential to include the behaviour of social formality and informality. The audience might stand-in for a family group or dinner guests, seated at a table together, each spectator bringing a personal viewpoint into the room.