Melati Suryodarmo
Exergie - Butter Dance (2000)
20 minutes performance

In Exergie - Butter Dance (2000), Melati dances on top of a pile of butter. Through a twenty-minute performance the artist repeatedly slips and stumbles, Melati explores the specific bodily sensation experienced in the single “delicate moment” where the body loses control before falling over.

As the artist stands after each fall, she emphasizes both the subjective nature of pain as part of a universal human experience and the importance of human will and determination at specific moments in life.

Exergie - Butter Dance (2000) is part of the performance series within the exhibition 'Melati Suryodarmo: Why Let the Chicken Run?' at Museum MACAN.

Saturday, 13 November 2021
This work will only be performed in 20 minutes duration time. The performance will start between 14.00 – 15.00. Please come in timely manner.

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