Ecdysis is a collaborative performance that took place on the closing night of the Proposals for Monuments solo exhibition at the Magaza - Museum Institute in Bitola, Macedonia. Over the course of this performance the musician, Dukovski, played bass clarinet and generated sound through a music looper, while the stonemason, Trajkofski, moved in an assigned, circular order to build four cinderblock walls around him. Ecdysis is an allegory about how new forms inadvertently can emerge when external forces attempt to preserve, frame, or contain an action or idea. Here, the stone mason‘s absurd ritual of building a cell around the musician changed the very nature of what he was trying to protect. At the end of this piece, the four walls changed the sound but did not contain or silence it.
Ivanco Talevski with Vasko Dukovski (composer and musician) and Silyan Trajkofski (stonemason), Magaza - Museum, and Institute of Bitola, Macedonia. July 22, 2015. 50-minute performance.
