Why is this performance night dedicated to binary?
These few past years the discussion in society has unfortunately returned back to the concept that all manner of things should be able to be pigeonholed. That things should be possible to name either-or, or all which settles in-between is too vague, scary and for those reasons unacceptable. While planning for this performance night I wanted to react to these binaries, adversarials, where things are either-or, open or closed, right or wrong, either feminine or masculine. In mathematics binaries mean a base number system, where to express different numbers there are two symbols which by definition exclude each other: 0 and 1.
In Binary Nights I want to use the methods of performance to examine all which can be between two mutually exclusive spaces. As an art-form performance is often between many other things; it really isn't visual art, nor theatre or even dance. To me it is something, that aligns itself between other art-forms and thus builds it's own space as porous and mobile. In Binary Night we will see what binary means in mathematics, what it means regarding sexual identities or dialogue in society and what manner of things can fit and settle between extremities of opinion. In Binary Night one can be between everything, but also examine the polarities which make this in-betweening possible.
Binary Nights curator, performance artist Leena Kela
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