AGGTELEK works on the border of performance, video, installation and ephemeral sculpture. Performing the Scenography, like most of their works, emerges from the creative process as a connecting element for the outcome in the video-performance. Through a mise en scene, where the artists fight against their own working material, they revisit new sculptural concepts, thus, building and destroying constantly the scenography where the performance takes place. Actions are recorded with clear allusion to slapsticks movies, where speed plays an important role.

By this method, AGGTELEK shows in this video their thoughts on capitalism. Cardboard boxes are used as an element to connect two worlds; while capitalism throws away cardboard, homeless people need it to live in. It is easy to recognize this allusion when architectural elements are built or in a mise en scene of a chaotic landscape, that could resemble a grotesque and dirty skyline.

The endless regeneration of sculptural structures in time and space, allows the viewer to relate to the artists’ most relevant references. Romantic landscape is latent, for instance and with no other purpose here, in the expression of their special aesthetic vision on climate change (icebergs). Therefore, directly alluding to Segantini’s ‘Bad Mothers’, AGGTELEK proposes their personal tribute to one of its components and a small review on Viennese Actionism. There are also theoretical references such as two statements from Jose Luis Pardo and Ileana Diéguez, painted as graffiti, that advocate an idea from the performative text.

The end of this video cannot be understood without regarding the process that the artists have endured to reach a result that becomes new scenery and raises a possibility to continue or to start a new performance. The result is not important but the constant evolution in their works that brings up the need of new forms of creation.