Title: I Asked Them to Walk
Date: 2005
Description:

A room of 5 x 4 x 5 meters. This construction holds two sides
of activity. SIDE A: 6 female participants continually moving slowly around the box.
SIDE B: A projected text at the rear side of the box. A box made from wooden construction material and plasterboard is 
located towards the back of a large empty space. The box construction is a room of 5 x 4 x 5 meters. The back of this 
room faces the entrance of the exhibition space. To enter the interior space of the constructed room, one has to go around it 
towards the back of the exhibition space. 
The room is lifted 60 cm above the floor and its ceiling is 60 cm lower than the building's ceiling. 
The room has an outside and inside wall that creates a narrow space of 60 cm. In these spaces, in between the walls, 
under  the floor and above the ceiling, a per formative act takes place. 6 female participants arbitrarily move around in 
between the walls of the room. They use their hands in order to "walk". They lie down and by pushing their bodies with 
their hands they move on. They move slowly and stop in a fixed position. The choreography of the movement aims to 
twist the perspective of what one sees. From the angle of the audience, it seems as if one watches the figures walking 
from above, walking in corridors around the main space. The interior space of the room is wide open. It has 3 walls with one 
side of the room open. A three stepped staircase leads up to it. On the rear center wall a text is projected. The text scrolls along 
the lower part of the wall as if a subtitle on a large empty screen. The text is a description of the functions of body parts. It portrays 
a figure of an eye that scans the body. As one stands in the interior space reading the text, one can hear through the walls the 
maneuvering of the performers' bodies in the unseen back of the room.

Yael Davids, Amsterdam, April 2006