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A kick in the teeth

Sunarjo, Benjamin; Erismann, Remy

For A kick in the teeth, I was interested in choreographically exposing moments of pure physicality. It was a new process for me at the time. I often create for myself a framing or set of constraints to improvise within. Here, each movement is instead precisely arranged in time and space. The movements themselves are taken from iconic photographs of competitive sports: track, basketball, baseball, soccer, or boxing.

In contrast to the speed with which the material is originally performed, here it is reenacted excruciatingly slow. This gives me time, on the one hand, to connect to a memory, a practice of embodiment. On the other hand, the slowness allows me to intervene as an image begins to establish itself and to change the course of events. The body is in a constant state of transition and the state of competition deconstructed to reveal an ambiguity inherent in any body. Determination and exhaustion, but a tilt of the neck away from each other, victory and defeat just a handbreadth apart, coexisting in the same body.

Kunstraum Aarau, Aarau, 2019

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camera: Erismann, Remy
dauer: 00:20
doctype: Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action
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eventplace: Kunstraum Aarau, Aarau
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jahrgang: 1984
medium: Video 16:9
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schlagwort: Genres:Body Art;Bezüge:Volkskultur;Qualitäten:langsam;Materialien:Präpariertes Performanceobjekt;Mittel:Körper und Objekt;Räume:Ausstellungsraum
sprache: eng