It's doing it
Woe betide anyone who does not realise his or her potential – it’s all your fault if you don’t budge. Whoever is too passive life will teach differently. The research based residency project «it's doing it» is all about the phenomenon of passivity and focuses on artistic methods and production processes. Is there some kind of form of resistance against increasing one’s self-esteem, against optimising oneself or this kind of autonomy? Can there be more self through less optimisation and more limitation? Here’s a suggestion: More of the same and less of the self. During eight weeks Lucie Tuma tried to live after a heavily protocolled daily schedule. An observance far from a spiritual order: the same activities, at the same time, for the same duration. Including sleep. No decisions, no autonomy, no evolution. In return: ritual, determination, repetition.
She is not satisfied with having enough breaks, slowing down, maybe a right to be lazy or simply with asking for more time. When it comes to disrupting the infinite loop of RE- and PRO-activity she demands to slam on the brakes.