You are welcome to this exhibition curated by Rike Frank and the European Kunsthalle, consisting of performances, videos, installations, and archives. Rike Frank has brought together six works, spanning twenty years, to highlight patterns of making and thinking that define the art practice of Sarah Pierce, who lives and works in Dublin. Borne out of relationships between the narratives we reproduce and those we wish to leave behind, Scene of the Myth asks what it means to gather, reflect, and act in community.
The title stems from one of Pierce's essays in which the artist describes social infrastructures, such as academies and museums, as moments through which the narratives and conventions of a historical past are re-constituted in the present.
The show features a selection of projects with students and community, who appear as performers, demonstrators, and interlocutors, including Campus (2011), a performance that mirrors communal acts such as teaching, learning, and political protest; and The Square (2017), an experimental "play without a script" that uses Bertolt Brecht's Lehrstück - or learning play - as a starting point. Pierce will involve student groups and local community in the re-learning and re-staging of performance works at intervals throughout the exhibition.