Until is an installation–performance that interrupts the perception of time through repetition and spatial displacement. The work questions the linearity of time and the stability of spatial perception, drawing on the concept of the space–time continuum.
The piece was staged in the underground structures of the Lausanne theatre, exploiting both the peculiar acoustics of the site and the disorienting atmosphere of its bunker-like tunnels. The path unfolded across nine rooms, each dimly lit by a flickering neon guiding the audience toward the smallest chamber, located at the bunker's exit.
In this final space, a three-piece rock band was enclosed within a sculptural structure that also served as their stage. Imprisoned inside this structure, the musicians were condemned to an endless return. They performed Radiohead’s Idioteque continuously, its incessant repetition gradually emptying the song of meaning and transforming it into a senseless sonic fragment, like an echo detached from its origin.
The work was conceived to engage two kinds of audience. The first descended the theatre stairs, where life flowed according to conventional time, only to enter an atemporal space. For three days, during the theatre's five daily opening hours, the same situation repeated itself in loop. The suspension of temporal flow and the reiteration of the action produced a perceptual fracture in the spectator.
The second audience was the band itself. The musicians wore suits designed for long-term bunker permanence, incorporating systems that allowed them to urinate during the performance. These contained absorbent substances that transformed liquid into odorless gel, producing small urine sculptures as a by-product of the work.
