Nicholas Hofman

A Seemingly Functional Window

"a seemingly functional window" is a 50-minute long performance that unfolds around two vampires who are searching for a new flat in The City. The work humorously addresses issues of scale in relation to time, performance and music making as a form of extra-temporal architecture and the role of stories and storytelling as a form that, through allowing the fantastic to become familiar, functions as a way of coping with the constructed world. What do decadent undead blood-suckers tell us about architecture? Can a building be vampiric? Are cities themselves vampiric: sucking the blood of their citizens? The deposition of the subject/object/body relationship turns absurd and melancholic as these two eternal bodies, trapped in the dealings of mankind on the brink of destruction, are simply trying to find a roof over their heads.

performer/musician: Laura Pudelekperformer/musician: Nicholas Hoffman