Three women seek subversive parallels in their work as mothers, and makers of performance and choreography – presenting the maternal body as a site from which to question identity, independence and love.
Murray’s foray into the frictions of ‘motherhood’ and ‘making’ is a personal, explicit and irreverent attempt to unpack her and her contemporaries’ experience as both mothers and makers of performance and choreographic work.
Confronted with the physical distortions of a monster/mother body the audience encounters a radical intimacy with a maternal space and the sense of their own singularity or ‘otherness’.
As a result, audience members are invited to take part in a shifting and dynamic inter-corporeal space. It is here boundaries of corporal ownership are continually negotiated and discovered to be porous.
Understanding of what it is to care for and with others, MO*FUs exposes and celebrates the challenges of ‘dependency’ as a means for creativity. By re-elevating notions of care and nurture MO*FUs makes visable the creative transformation of the maternal, proposing new erotics in which to consider intersubjectivity and reciprocity – spaces where the self and other are simultaneously entwined and separate.
By searching for parallels between the working practices of artists and the experience of motherhood MO*FUs finds physical translations for the endless and fluid ‘process of becoming’ while at the same time, striving for versions of love and care-giving that have the potential to continually remake the world.
Concept: Emma Murray. Choreography and performance: Emma Murray, Nadine Fuchs, Emma Ribbing. Dramaturgy: Johanna Hilari. Scenography: Jasmin Wiesli. Light design and technology: Ursula Degen. Sound design: Till Hillbrecht. Photos: Nicole Pfister. Production management: Michael Röhrenbach. Residences: PTL Ljubljana, DansStations Malmö, Tanzhaus Zürich. Co-production: Dampfzentrale Bern. With the kind support of the City of Bern, Canton of Bern, Burgergemeinde Bern, Migros Culture Percentage, Swiss Artist Foundation.
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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]
