A FEELING THAT THIS IS THE CASE
performance 30 min
A FEELING THAT THIS IS THE CASE
Since couple of years I have been invested into developing a movement practice that explore the embodiment of imagery. It allows the body to feel as if it was transforming itself into multiple living forms and it grants the body a kind of autonomy – its own language and agency. In the performance, I juxtapose this practice with my early movement experiences – a childhood career in rhythmic gymnastics dominated by discipline and competition – and after philosopher Catherine Malabou I raise questions of ontological plasticity and the possibilities of conscious change. How are we shaped by our actions? How do we become something/someone through our own imaginations, and how through everyday activities and their qualities? What kind of benefit governs our choices? And finally, how much of attention do we dedicate to external conditioning, and how much to languages and landscapes we find in ourselves?
Choreography, performance: Martyna Lorenc
Sound: Andreas Bick, “Frost pattern”
Video: personal archive
Artistic coaching: Dalija Acin Thelander
Illustration: Ludmiła Kaczmarek
Production: Art Stations Foundation
Premiere: 19.10.2019, Art Station Foundation, Old Brewery Poznań
photo credit: (C) K-PICTURES
A FEELING THAT THIS IS THE CASE
works
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Encounters (2020)durational performance (streaming)
On how to deal with a human (2020)performance
A feeling that this is the case (2019)performance
IXo-9 (2020)video installation
Garden of desires (2018)performance in a lecture setting
Hydraosperformance
Negotiations (2018-2019)durational performance
TRWANIE (2019)durational performance
Into touch. Phantom bodies' universes (2019)lecture-performance
Doggy dreams (2019)improvisation performance
Trance.Sense.Dance (2018)explorative club session
Garden of desires @ MEMPHIS MEMPHIS (2017)exhibition & performance
All about Alice (2018)performance for young audience
(T)here and after (2016)performance
Close-up 2.0 (2017)performance
4only (2017)performance
Rhinospider (2016)video
Apollon Musagète (2016)performance
Expansion of the moment (2016)performance
Love & delay (2015)performance
WYSIWYG (2014)performance
Back to Bone (2014)performance
Instant (2014)performance
4plus1 (2014)performance
Multiple two (2013)performance
Ysaye Project (2013)performance
MARTYNA LORENC