Bird Bird, Touch Touch, Sing Sing - A Song For Dislocated Diasporic Bodies
The work "Bird Bird, Touch Touch, Sing Sing" celebrates inter-dependency, vulnerability, closeness, disorientation, and trust, as forms of collective decolonial resistance.
A quiet coup attempting to displace the structural imbalances, to disorientate geographies, and to find space for silenced narratives. An (auto)reflexive re-evaluation of the unquestionable hierarchy of values imposed unto Us, a living work which attempts to embody extantation – to persist on existing despite conditions that favour its imminent extinction. In this work, the performers attempt to create another reality - through touching, proximity, and movements, that is not pre-choreographed but created in the moment by the circumstances within the process of creating the sound and by the movements of the performers+audience becoming a collective body - a space of disassociation unloaded with the social constructs associated with the politics of touch found in the modern world and the geography associated with it. Where to choreograph, compose and perform in this case, goes beyond the narrow confines of artistic concepts and aesthetics, existing in both the space of the ethereal and the space of an immersive installative performance. To process feelings, thoughts and intentions on the peripheral spectrum between the knowing and the unknowing, Nguyễn + Transitory hope to be one of the few ways left to reconnect with lost magic.
Performance
von Nguyễn + Transitory
Bisherige Aufführungen
- 8.9.2019, Premiere , Performing The Museum 2019, Serralves Museum, Porto
- 20.9.2019, Ultima Festival 2019, Oslo
- 26.9.2019, STUK, Leuven
- 27.9.2019, STUK, Leuven
- 14.11.2019, HeK, Basel