Repeated Movement: Interview with Manuel Pelmus

Romanian performance artist Manuel Pelmuş’s solo exhibition, “Movements at an Exhibition,” recently transformed Hong Kong’s Para Site into a minimalist setting, marked only by concentric rectangular floor carpets that transition between hues of blue and green. The show consisted of four dancers performing a grand sequence looping between still, sculptural formations, silent movements, textual recitations, and choral singing. The polysemy of the word “movement” in the exhibition title—evoking physical motion, social movements, and structural units in a musical composition—set the tone for the ambitiously discipline-blurring project.