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hereish and nowish is a live installation. A choreography of five performative breathing techniques demonstrates a pronounced corporality that one cannot escape. The structural openness of the seven-hour long performance (running in 60-minute loops) allows visitors to decide for themselves when they wish to enter and exit. Over time, communities, liaisons and accomplices occur among the visitors that come, go and stay.

The performative breathing techniques divide the body into polarities between life and non-life. Through breathing, we are weaving symbiotic relations with our environment whereby man created divisions between inside and outside, local and global, nature and culture, and life and non-life—all of which are moving towards a line that crosses our bodies.

In hereish and nowish, the practice of breathing becomes the mediator between the binarities of a contemporary ecological catastrophe, where the use of technologies rebounds to our bodies. Where body and technology can no longer be separated from each other, the catastrophe gains a real material force. In hereish and nowish, life itself becomes the intrinsic form; it is what places this live installation beyond work and reproduction.
Helmhaus, Zürich, 2017
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anderesformat
hereish and nowish ist eine Live Installation. Länge Choreografie: ca 60 min Länge Live Installation: 420 min Länge Video (geschnitten): 03:46
camera
Studerus, Gabriel
dauer
420min
doctype
Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action
eventcurator
Morgenthaler, Daniel
eventplace
Helmhaus, Zürich
festival
Eine Ausstellung für Dich/ An Exhibition for You
function
Choreografie
jahrgang
1983
medium
Video 16:9
performers
Lehr, Anna Lena; Magyar, Tabea; Meul, Désirée Sophie
remark
schlagwort
Genres:Body Art;Genres:Langzeitperformance;Themen:Körpererfahrung;Themen:Verletzlichkeit;Materialien:Luft;Mittel:Geräusche;Players:Gruppe;Räume:Ausstellungsraum;Materialtyp:Dokumentation einer Performance
sprache
eng