جوانا فاسكونسيلوس
琼娜巴斯孔塞洛斯
ג’ואנה אסקונסלוס
ジョアナ·ヴァスコンセロス
ДЖОАНА ВАСКОНСЕЛОС
red independent heart
STARTING OUT FROM INGENIOUS OPERATIONS OF DISPLACEMENT, A REMINISCENCE OF THE READY-MADE AND THE GRAMMARS OF NOUVEAU RÉALISME AND POP, THE ARTIST OFFERS US A COMPLICIT VISION, BUT ONE WHICH IS AT THE SAME TIME CRITICAL OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY AND THE SEVERAL FEATURES WHICH SERVE THE ENUNCIATIONS OF COLLECTIVE IDENTITY, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT CONCERN THE STATUS OF WOMEN, CLASS DISTINCTION OR NATIONAL IDENTITY.

جوانا فاسكونسيلوس
琼娜巴斯孔塞洛斯
ג’ואנה אסקונסלוס
ジョアナ·ヴァスコンセロス
ДЖОАНА ВАСКОНСЕЛОС
Starting out from ingenious operations of displacement, a reminiscence of the ready-made and the grammars of Nouveau Réalisme and pop, the artist offers us a complicit vision, but one which is at the same time critical of contemporary society and the several features which serve the enunciations of collective identity, especially those that concern the status of women, class distinction or national identity.

Sidi Larbi Chekaoui, Damien Jalet and Anthony Gormley

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet joined forces with visual artist Antony Gormley to create Babel(words), a dance performance that explores language and its relationship with nationhood, identity and religion. Taking the tale of ‘The Tower of Babel’ as its starting point, Gormley’s 5 huge 3-dimensional frames hint at a nameless intersection in a faceless city near the borders that define a no man’s land. We watch as the action flows from private to public, intimacy to extroversion, and the individual to the collective – while choices of faith, space and community are made and we are reminded that to some the tale of Babel represents the gates to enlightenment, to others – chaos, confusion and conflict.

Ways of Water – A Love Potion for Nature
Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter’s collaborative work is interdisciplinary, multi-sensory and site and context responsive spanning performance, happenings, interventions, sound, video and installation. Through their practice, Zierle & Carter critically examine different modes of communication and what it means to be human both as individuals and as a ‘collective entity’. Their work addresses notions of belonging, cultural identity, the dynamics within relationships, harmony through conflict and the transformation of limitations.

Dividual Plays
While the antonym of “individual” is “collective” in general, Gilles Deleuze (1925-95), a French philosopher, came up with the notion of “dividual” since the preposition “in” disaffirms the following word. Notions of “individual” and “dividual” have been, and continue to be, discussed in various contexts such as the economy, civil society, personal identity and more.
Through her time at The Forsythe Company, Yoko Ando came to define improvisation as “being individual but with the possibility of being collective at the same time”. While each agent performs independently, he/she is synchronized with other dancers simultaneously. RAM project began by finding shapes for the ideas in Yoko’s dancer’s mind. The piece expands on the idea of “dividual” and explores new dance, new notions of the body and the new relationships between the human body and technology by pursuing deeper interaction between dancers and the notion of system.