INSCRIPTION, ENDURING, POTENTIAL (expanded cinema performance)

The performance centers on gesture as holder of subtle cultural memory and history, which could point to the body as an anthropological and sociological archive. Through physical habits, routines and automatisms rooted in the historical societal landscape, the body possesses information and expresses knowledge of deep cultural implication.

"Gesture is the name of this intersection between life and art, act and power, general and particular, text and execution. It is a moment of life subtracted from the context of individual biography as well as a moment of art subtracted from the neutrality of aesthetics: it is pure praxis. The gesture is neither use value nor exchange value, neither biographic experience nor impersonal event: it is the other side of the commodity that lets the “crystals of this common social substance” sink into the situation." (Giorgio Agamben)

The images are sourced from self-collected home movies (of autoethnographic origin) and deconstructed, trapping body movement or posture into short, unpredictable set of images, continuously re-arranged. The main guide is a sonic tape loop on 4 channels. The material, filmic as well as sonic, is used as open structures which can be manipulated and reacted to in real-time.

This is a fragment of her long-term fluid film project OTHER.

SPACE residency

For this version Dr Andrej Mircev joined the performance, adding slides of found material. We were looking to establish situations in which the film is spatialized for this specific room, build some kind of scenography, and how the slides and the films can be juxtaposed without losing their power or be just a doubling of meaning. That was achieved by the installative set-up of two hanging sheets which acted as surfaces for screening. They divided the room diagonally and allowed for each element to be on opposite sides, having some autonomy and acting as a reflection to one another. It consumed the space of the audience, as well, so they would have to enter the site and walk around to see the whole performance.