battlefield #130, 2018-2024, 5h non-stop, Jérôme Leuba as part as Dance First Think Later

Over the last twenty years, Jérôme Leuba has been developing a body of work entitled #battlefield. These “battlefields” combine different media, including “living sculptures”, performative works that he stages in selected public spaces. Deceptively simple, these stagings question our social codes, play with our perception of the world, and shift the boundaries between reality and representation.

The battlefield #130 living sculpture offers viewers the chance to experience the gaze, its own existence, and the presence of other bodies. “Bodies lead, move, and organise themselves. They modify the space around them and create a distance between us. We pay attention to the frames of experience, where art meets life. Each body has a unique and collective history. It is a media vector. Every body engages me. Every gaze involves me.” (Jérôme Leuba)

Jérôme Leuba is a graduate of the École supérieure d’art visuel de Genève (now HEAD – Genève) and began his career making 16- and 35-mm films, as well as a feature-length film entitled Gaule in 2003. He has exhibited at MAMCO Geneva; Casal Solleric, Majorca; Martin Gropius Bau Berlin; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Profile Foundation, Warsaw; Modern Art Oxford, Ural Industrial Biennial Yekaterinburg, Russia; Kunsthalle Basel. He has held residencies in Paris, Berlin, and Johannesburg. He is a winner of the Swiss Art Prize, the Manor Cultural Prize, the Irène Reymond Prize, and the Liechti Foundation Prize. He has produced two public art works in Geneva: Breath-Neons Parallax (2007) and Assemblage (2023). A monograph, battlefield, was published by JRP Ringier in 2013. He is a researcher and associate professor at the École de Design et Haute Ecole d’Art (EDHEA) in Sierre.
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battlefield #130, 2018-2024
Reenactment of a situation performed at Kunsthalle Basel (2018) and at MCBA Lausanne (2022). Play with 30 participating performers.