Carolina Mendonça, Avgi Saketopoulou, bela, Ronce & gotgha
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Carolina Mendonça, Avgi Saketopoulou, bela, Ronce & gotgha
Symposium: Risking Repetition. Aesthetics of «Survival»
This two-day polyphonic format looks at how «survivors» of sexualised violence perform «survival». The aesthetic strategies and performative modes in the works of many of those affected often undermine melodramatic expectations of the performance of traumatic aftereffects. Instead, there is a tendency towards «underperformed emotion» (Lauren Berlant) in such works and many artists are «risking repetition» (Ann Cvetokovic) rather than avoiding the revision of trauma. Such aesthetic strategies complicate the notion of «survival»: instead of yearning for a state of integrity and healing, they integrate negativity and incompleteness, and employ aesthetic strategies of confusion, dissociation and underperformance.
The symposium will be opened on Saturday evening with the performance Zones of Resplendence by Carolina Mendonça, concerts by bela, gotgha, and Ronce and a late-night lecture by psychoanalyst and theorist Avgi Saketopoulou entitled Lingering in the wound: sadism and confusion as aesthetic practice.
This will be followed on Sunday by an open, participatory roundtable discussion with Avgi Saketopoulou, Carolina Mendonça, Joshua Wicke and other guests.
Saturday October 26th, 2024
20:30 – 21:30 Ronce
21:30 – 22:30 bela
22:30 – 23:30 Zones of Resplendence by Carolina Mendonça
00:00 – 01:00 lecture Lingering in the wound: sadism and confusion as aesthetic practice by Avgi Saketopoulou
01:00 – gotgha
Sunday October 27th, 2024
16:00 - 19:00: participatory roundtable discussion with Avgi Saketopoulou, Carolina Mendonça, Joshua Wicke and other guests
Zones of Resplendence by Carolina Mendonça
Wie sähe die Welt aus, wenn Sie Ihre eigene Waffe wählen könnten? Zones of Resplendence erforscht die Erscheinungsformen einer möglichen feminisierten Armee. Carolina Mendonça und Lara Ferrari untersuchen, ob man einen Krieg mit Verletzlichkeit führen kann, und erweitern so die Perspektive auf Gewalt. Indem sie ihren Körper auf unterschiedliche Weise einsetzen, bereiten sie sich auf eine mögliche Konfrontation vor. Wird diese Science-Fiction-Tanzperformance eine neue Art von Armee hervorbringen?
Risking Repetition takes place upon invitation by Tanzhaus Accomplice Joseph Baan, and occurs within the framework of Structures of Unfeeling: a performative learning environment that uses the exhibition format for the formation of a public culture around sexualised violence. Initiated by SOHERE (Joseph Baan, wolf engelen, Vanessa Jane Phaff) and taking place in BINZ39 and Tanzhaus Zurich, Structures of Unfeeling brings together a diverse group of practitioners from the fields of art, education, music, performance, dramaturgy, and academia, who have all in different ways been impacted and inscribed by histories of sexualised violence. By means of spatial interventions, works of art, a reader, an open-access archive and printing room, seminars and workshops, a symposium, and a programme of concerts, night vigils, and film screenings, the programme provides a diverse and comprehensive environment to foster conversation, collective thinking and making, and a discursive framework to encounter the topic of sexualised violence through aesthetic, material, embodied, and theoretical means. For more information on the programme visit: josephinebaan.com/Structures-of-Unfeeling
Curated by Luc Häfliger (music) and Joshua Wicke (discourse) in dialogue with SOHERE (Joseph Baan, wolf engelen, Vanessa Jane Phaff)
With contributions by Ronce, bela, Carolina Mendonça, Avgi Saketopoulou, gotgha
Photo of Zones of Resplendence by Carolina Mendonça, photo by Mila Ercoli
Dates / Booking
Saturday, 26.10.2024
20:30 — 03:00
20:30 — 03:00
- Pay as much as you want
- Payment on the spot
Bühne 2
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 129
8037 Zürich
- Duration: 6h 30m
- English
- Wheelchair accessible
Sunday, 27.10.2024
16:00 — 19:00
16:00 — 19:00
- Pay as much as you want
- Payment on the spot
Bühne 2
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 129
8037 Zürich
- Duration: 3h
- English
- Wheelchair accessible
