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‘The Temporary Tribe’ (Praha)

I was born in Moscow, Russia in 1983, and moved to the US when I was seven years old. My mixture of identities and personal history of displacement has resulted in a fascination with masking. Thus, I am often experimenting with masking in public space, in an attempt to blur the boundaries between looking and seeing, between voyeur and spectacle. ‘The Temporary Tribe’ was first staged in Detroit as a way to temporarily re-inhabit a lost landscape; superimposing a tribe of women onto the landscape turned it into a surreal site of activity; a brief narrative was created and built into the story of that site. For the Quadrennial, I will recreate ‘The Temporary Tribe’ in Praha, a dense urban fabric conducive to weaving in a brief narrative of several masked humans, walking a choreographed path. Tribe members will be dressed in handmade costumes and masks and carry several ambiguous props. At the end of their walk they will dance. They will appear and disappear as visitors from the future and past.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Anna Adler


Additional information: She is working in sculpture, installation, and performance, with a focus on staged narrative, storytelling and social practice. Her practice involves infusing the surreal into the everyday, through public walks, interventions, and general explorations of the fluidity of identity and place.