Niewola (captivity), PL-Gdañsk 2006

by Angelika Fojtuch and  Johannes Deimling

Duration 20 minutes

Description of action A table and two chairs are standing in the room. He is comming to the table and puts two soup-plates, two spoons and two white servittes and bread on it. He sit down on the chair and waits. After a while she with a pot full of soup enters the room and place the pot in the middle of the table and hand out the soup with a ladle. The soup is steaming in the plates. She would like to sit down and he stands quickly up, runs to the chair of she and pushes it friendly on the table, so that she could sit down comfortable. He goes back to his chair and wants to sit down, she jumps up and pushes now his chair on the table so that he can sit comfortable. She goes back to her place and wants to sit down, once more he jumps up and helps her friendly on the seat and goes back to his place. Again she jumps up and pushes the chair for him on the table and goes back to her place. Once more he jumps up... This action continues until he suddenly leaves the room and leave her behind on the table. After a pause she pours the cold soup back into the pot and leaves also the place.

Photos: Monika Pudlis