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Meg Stuart

12.10.2020

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In August, Meg Stuart was on a month long residency at PACT working on her new creation ›CASCADE‹ which would have premiered at the Ruhrtriennale 2020. We sat down to talk about her new work, the collaboration with the performers and the changes and new perspectives brought about by Covid-19.

Residencies

En Skater spring mit seinem Skateboard über eine liegende Person im Flur von PACT Zollverein

#ResidencyInsights Márcio Kerber Canabarro

»When I grasp an environment is acknowledging me, I feel a strong sense of continuation, (and extension) of belonging. It might be a mutual process, where my focus gets curious to notice where I am, the place, the situation, the density of a particular room, the feelings that rise and the sensations that leave...«

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Sahar sitzt auf einem grünen Samtsofa und schaut mit dem Kopf auf die Hand gestützt in die Kamera.

#ResidencyInsights Sahar Damoni

Sahar Damoni’s new work is a multi-disciplinary solo performance installation which continues her research around reproductive and sexual freedom, bodily autonomy, and the impact of abortion for Arab women. The work will combine movement, photography and video projection and textiles that serve as a visual art element.

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Emmanuel Ndefo hockt vor einer Leinwand mit einer Fotografie von einem performenden Mann

#ResidencyInsights Emmanuel Ndefo

»Adamma- ›The Passage‹ is a solo performance based on the 'Adamma' maiden spirit ritual, touching on forms of transgression and of shape shifting through embodiment and African ancestral spirituality. In this work, I will explore Igbo maiden spirit rituals of crossdressing, transsexualism and transvestism as subversive places, where the notion of subjectivity is challenged, where gender norms are questioned, and where identity is always perceived as capable of construction, invention and change.«

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Koloto Siraji in einem weißen Anzug auf einer schwarzen Bühne im Lichtkegel

#ResidencyInsights Koloto Siraji

»During my residency at PACT, I was questioning the nature of a living body from the perspective of an African. This involved reflecting on my own childhood traumas and transgenerational conflicts as well as looking at an African body as an archive of transgenerational history. How do I contain the energies that were passed on to me by my ancestors? How do I live with past traumas in the present?«

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Die Performer:innen sitzen mit bedeckten Gesichtern auf einer roten Samtcouch

#ResidencyInsights María Mercedes Flores Mujica, Constanza Javiera Ruiz, Brigitte Huezo & Hendrik Eichler

Our residency in PACT was the second rehearsal period for the production ›What, Where, When are we?!‹ a work that sets out to explore the question of whether identity is rooted in one space and time. It is a rhythmical approach to transnational and multidimensional embodied experiences. Four performers on stage, live drums, and radio stations create sound layers that interweave with body memories.

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Val Souza während des Showings bei PACT Zollverein

#ResidencyInsights Val Souza & Guego Anunciação

Continuing the investigation and convening different and varied sources of archives of iconographies of black women, Venus articulates the extensive selection of gestures present in the images and representations of black women of different origins and times, as well as Val Souza's own self-portrait, that she has been collecting in what she has been calling the Venus archive about 5,000 thousand images, 2,000 self-portraits that can be a source of analysis about possible similarities in the way black women are portrayed and represented.

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caner teker during their residency at PACT Zollverein

#ResidencyInsights caner teker

»After ›KIRKPINAR‹ & ›karadeniz‹, my new research on queer androgynous belly dancers called ›köçek‹ will conclude in a trilogy about the trans-individualist self beyond identity politics. Death, mourning and its affects continue my motivation in inviting witnesses to a shared experience of a temporary community in the black box.«

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Wezile Harmans perfroming in front a red light

#ResidencyInsights Wezile Harmans

»›The Body. The Voice.‹ is a series performance work that studies the development of a human body. The work focuses on the body's relationship with familiar and unfamiliar spaces. The work is divided into 3 scenes using video, live performance and installation. These scenes take us through to lived experiences and tragic events that occurred/occurring across the world, how the body finds itself to adopt, evolve and immense itself through these uncomfortable and difficult trials.«

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Die Künstlerin sitzt mit Farbe beschmiert auf einem Haufen Erde.

#ResidencyInsights Idylla Silmarovi

»The dream manifests itself in the present, action attentive to the world around. I smell memories in the territory of others in the midst of a theater that dances in ruins, a choreography of the body – territory, barking at the border in a situation of war. Submerged in a creative studio and open to the city and the outside, sometimes I step firmly on the ground to make sure I'm here. Living? I don't know anymore.«

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Zwei Pesonen in einem weißen Raum mit blauen Markierungen an den Wänden und dem Boden. Sie Tanzen und bewegen sich durch den Raum.

#ResidencyInsights cat mahari & Jarius King

»In my work I have been staring into the face of questions regarding Black liberation, anarchism, play, and the ways our current order of relations can give way to modes of being that are inherently liberatory from modernity's framing. This is articulated via sound and movement exploration that center Hip Hop as an anarcho-choreographic modality.«

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An old golden jewel with black gemstone ornaments

#ResidencyInsights Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki

›Small notes on history.‹ is part of my extended research ›From body to body‹ which focuses on the practice and lives of midwives during the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1924, as a result of the Treaty of Lausanne. My interest in this subject comes from my own family's history, their part in the exchange and my great aunt Despoina, a practicing midwife in both Turkey and Greece.

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#ResidencyInsights Aii Wijaya & Ikbal Lubys

»Palm oil is a slow moving liquid , but many things are moving and changing very fast due palm oil production. It changes the environment, social, political, economic, people's mindset, habit and life. Ironically, the largest producer of palm oil in the world uses only 20% of its production, but the ones who receive the greatest impact directly. Such as a coin, this magical fruit have two different faces that only one can choose from.

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