A completely unique show based around a singular talent, Freeze! crackles into being around a man on his knees balancing rocks on top of each other while his voice, purposefully slow, floats out to us from a speaker, a distraction talking about distractions.

The stones rest on large boxes made from mirrored glass, heightening the stakes and reminding us of the potential destructive cost and violence of failure. You see, the performer isn’t just resting rocks upon each other in a sensible, almost natural way, like you might see in the cairn pillars of artist Andy Goldsworthy, instead they are balanced to defy both gravity and possibility.

All Steur does is put rocks on top of each other and within this minimalism there is rich complexity: we see the time and precision required by each creation, a transition from active imbalance towards a resounding sturdiness, the rock’s stillness seeming to resonate out in the space. I found myself laughing at just how absurd it was that these stones could stay in place like that, resting on point. They come to function as both sculpture and performance document, each adopting an almost-human personality rife with idiosyncrasy.

The text serves as a counterpoint, where the actions are concrete and based on concentrated, meditative effort, the text is intangible and full of digression and mistakes. I got a sense of how everything you do is based on impossibly vulnerable circumstances which might collapse at any moment, where the risk of failure threatens to destroy the foundations of everything you have built. I found the work utterly delightful and spent the majority of the performance with my mouth open in amazement.