Monsterhood. The Making of forms part of a series of performances between the visual artist, Latefa Wiersch and performer, Emma Murray in which dance and object, inanimate and living bodies interconnect and grow into hybrids. In a world that is increasingly disembodied, mechanised and digitalised, Monsterhood the Making of responds to questions about the human body through a re-shaping of the threshold between subjective existence and material object. The work brings together Wiersch’s interest in the installation and animation of objects and Murray’s ongoing maternal enquiry into performing Motherhood. Monsterhood. The Making of performs a co-presence between human subject and the ambiguous figure of the puppet-as-other, in which boundaries of corporal cohesion are put to the test.“Only through movement is transformation of the objects made possible.”
Through movement, body fragments are pushed, pressed, reformed and pupated into other creatures. There is a confrontation with the uneasiness of an abject or erupted body -‘a body emerging from one’s own’. In this way, new relations are continuously created and existing ones changed. Bodies lie over bodies, entwine, pupate other bodies, lose a head, fall, are held, are pulled down and then stand again. The number of limbs change, proportions are deformed and tentacles grow through a continuous and unfolding interaction.
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION 2019, Monsterhood. The making of, Dampfzentrale Bern, CH FORMAT MP4 16:9, SOUND Stero, DURATION 4.17
VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPHY Nicole Pfister
SOUND Till Hillbrecht
2019, Monsterhood. The making of, Dampfzentrale Bern, CH
CHOREOGRAPHY Emma Lorien Murray
OBJECTS Latefa Wiersch
PERFORMERS Claudia Barth, Simea Cavelti, Sandra Klimek
PHOTOGRAPHY Nicole Pfister, Latefa Wiersch
SOUND Till Hillbrecht
MONSTERHOOD. The Making of asks
//How to listen closely and allow objects to speak?
//How can we privilege the tactile over the visual?
//What significance does skin and touch have in this context?
//How does the puppet object move? How does she move me? What are we together?
//In this context, how can we challenge notions of bodily identity or boundaries in support of ‘an ecology of fluctuating intensities or environments of interdependent entities?’
//What does the touch of her hand trigger in me?
//What does a game of disguise or disfigurement, so typical of puppets and masks, have to do with our collective fears and fantasies of motherhood?
//How do we perform Motherhood?
//Together with objects how do we perform being multiple, hybrid, and in constant mutation?
Latefa Wiersch and Emma Lorien Murray met in 2018 during the CAP Masters programme. Murray, who comes from fields of dance and choreography, and Wiersch, who as a visual artist has developed many animation and installations, have developed and performed a series of interdisciplinary works over the past two years at; Museum Haus Konstruktiv (2019); Centre Pasquart (2019); Kunstverein Freiburg (2019); Zentrum Paul Klee, (2019) as well at the Dampfzentrale Bern in December 2019. Till Hillbrecht with whom Murray has collaborated many times, designed the sound score for Monsterhood. The Making of with live electronics and sounding stage objects. He captured field recordings from rehearsals, morphed voice and high and low pitched sounds to create a hybrid situation of synthetic and natural, spatial and soft, dark and bright acoustic contrasts.
WORKING SESSIONS
- Mirko, Martin and Johanna in the tower, Kortrijk, BE August 22, 2014
- Photo August 22, 2014
- In einem Gespräch mit Martin über Erfahrungen und Strategien offenbart er eine sehr offene... August 22, 2014
- CONCEPT Community processes - Arquitecture & Urbanism - Body awareness &... August 22, 2014
- Do you have any tried and tested 'rules' (criteria) when collaborating or considering a new collaboration? August 21, 2014
- LANDMARK training Kortrijk Congè, BE July 2014 July 27, 2014
- Die Grundidee von LANDMARK ® ist ein gemeinschaftliches Körpertraining für eine spezifische... July 6, 2014
- LANDMARK(c) Dancing the neighborhood | Kunstencentrum BUDA July 6, 2014
- Working Sessions goes Kortrijk Congé July 6, 2014
- Photo June 13, 2014
Mirko, Martin and Johanna in the tower, Kortrijk, BE
Mirko, Martin and Johanna in the tower, Kortrijk, BE
In Einem Gespräch Mit Martin über Erfahrungen Und
In einem Gespräch mit Martin über Erfahrungen und Strategien offenbart er eine sehr offene Arebitsweise, die meist auf Zusammenarbeit/Kollaboration mit anderen KünsterInnen beruht.
Emma: You seem to be really effective in being loose or light and at the same time very concentrated in your approach.
Martin: I always have the… [more]
Concept Community Processes Arquitecture
CONCEPT
Community processes - Arquitecture & Urbanism - Body awareness & trainig
Linear connections between these motives are already widely existant in socio artistic practice. The LANDMARK training positions itself in the crossover between Community processes, Architecture & Urbanism and Body awareness & training.
Hereby the transitions are… [more]
Do you have any tried and tested 'rules' (criteria) when collaborating or considering a new collaboration?
emmainbern:
Martin Schick:
“Yes, mainly to not call it collaboration. I find it a terrible system, it reminds me of the word 'collapse'. I prefer to call it 'co-operation', which means accepting difficulties and differences and letting them co-exist. No consensus!”
Schick postuliert damit die Möglichkeit und gewissermassen Fruchtbarkeit, die… [more]
LANDMARK training Kortrijk Congè, BE July 2014
LANDMARK training Kortrijk Congè, BE July 2014
Die Grundidee Von Landmark Ist Ein
Die Grundidee von LANDMARK ® ist ein gemeinschaftliches Körpertraining für eine spezifische Nachbarschaft oder Kleinstadt, das Gemeinschaftsbildung und soziale Stadtentwicklungen fördert.
Das Körpertraining an sich fördert die Körperintelligenz und trainiert Rhythmus, Dynamik, Ausdauer, Kraft und Koordination. Das Training erlaubt eine individuelle Mitwirkung und einen persönlichen Zugang, gleichzeitig werden Räume für… [more]
LANDMARK(c) Dancing the neighborhood | Kunstencentrum BUDA
Working Sessions goes Kortrijk Congé
Mit Martin Schick arbeiten wir an “LANDMARK” und nützen die wertvolle Gelegenheit uns gleichzeitig über den Prozess auszutauschen. (Natürlich auch über vergangene Arbeitsprozesse und ‘Prozess’ im Allgemeinen.)
community based physical training LANDMARK introduces physical training into a specific neighbourhood or small city as a
way of sustainable community building… [more]
SOSA - SOCIAL SPACE AGENCY
Stell Dir den sozialen Raum als ein Strassennetz vor: Er besteht aus Strassen, die die Menschen gemeinsam erbaut haben, um eine ‹Gesellschaft› zu erzeugen. In dieser Gesellschaft verhalten wir uns in jeder Situation so, als befänden wir uns an einer Weggabelung: Wir versuchen festzustellen, welches Verhalten angebracht ist und wählen… [more]
