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- , La Visiva, Barcelona, ES
- , Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, SI
The dance-performative research project Exquisite Corpse is part of a series of projects by young (though not necessarily) authors produced by Emanat that explore stage language. The aim of these explorations is to break the concentration of creative processes that focus exclusively on the product and redirect them towards the development of performing language and a reflection on the issues of WHAT and HOW in relation to artistic creation. At least one public presentation will be performed using freely the surrealist play principle of the “cadavre exquis” (the exquisite corpse) to reflect on the structure of the presentation, the development of the performative language or the working methodology developed through the research process.
About
I begin this research out of frustration. Frustration with the endless search for reasons. With the need we have, as viewers, to constantly explain, contextualize, and justify what lies before us; to make sense of it, right there and then, before we’ve even processed it. And this response is most raw when a naked body stands before us.
I will explore nudity as a performative tool: how it influences the gaze directed at it, and how it challenges the social norms that condemn it. The main tools of my research will be duration and circularity as instruments of the desexualization of the naked body. Imagine a naked body on a rotating platform: there is no perspective that remains unseen, no angle that can be hidden. It is impossible to frame the body in a specific way, because the rotation reveals absolutely everything. And so the naked body slowly becomes nothing more than a mass of muscle and skin.
Through the observer’s perspective, I will explore the tension between intimacy and voyeurism, between vulnerability and power, between curiosity and shame. Above all, it will be about defying justification and rationalization; resisting explanation and logic; a simple WHY NOT?
Collaborators
Research, movement: Neža Ana Goričar
Mentoring:
Lighting design: Veronika Hana Grubič
Support
Production: Emanat
Co-organisation: Cankarjev dom
Co-production residency: La Visiva (Spain)
Financial support: Ministry of Culture RS
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