TAPE is a participatory performance exploring the tension between closeness and distance. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s The Distance of the Moon (1965), where the full Moon drifts so near to Earth that people can climb onto its surface with ladders, the piece reimagines gravity as a force not of celestial bodies, but of human longing. In Calvino’s story, once on the Moon, the sailors feel the pull between worlds shift—the familiar weight of Earth dissolves, replaced by the Moon’s own gravitational hold. Here, tape becomes a metaphor for this fragile attraction: a material that binds yet releases, measures and holds in place. Like the ladder in Calvino’s tale, tape is both a bridge and a tether—a way to fasten fleeting proximity, or to mark the residue of separation. Between the Earth and the Moon. Between you and me.

The performance was part of the performative program of the exhibition Places for Deliberation: Barbara Kozłowska in Mala Galerija Slovenije within the City of Women festival.

Curated by Ana Grobler, Sebastian Krawczyk from Alkatraz Gallery.

Photo: Nada Žgank, 31st City of Women festival