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Let’s consider Burma? Crossmaping Monte Verita/Kazimierz
Let’s consider Burma? Crossmaping Monte Verita/Kazimierz
(2021)
Saemann, Andrea; Regn, Chris
Malgorzata Sady, Ewa Zarzycka, Paweł Korbus (Eventcurator)
Zwick, Sus (Camera)
Zwick, Sus (Camera)
Chris Regn & Andrea Saemann: «Let‘s Consider Burma»
The invitation to Kazimierz Dolny caught us up in our fascination for artist colonies.We wanted to connect our projections on Kazimierz Dolny in Poland with the history of Monte Veritá in Italian-speaking Switzerland. Crossmapping and translocal performance histories formed the starting points of our approach.
In the middle of the forest slope, at the moment of the setting sun, we presented in a first part a re-enactment of photographs from the dance movement of the turn of the century, solos and duos.A nude dance interlude celebrated the will to connect with nature.A song performed together about the intentions and possibilities of summer gatherings in artist colonies spoke about the forest of Fontainebleau and the hill in Ascona.
«Let‘s Consider Burma» explains the tools of crossmapping and the translocal view of hi:stories. After all, Burma had one of the most progressive legislations at the beginning of the 19th century in terms of voting rights for women and became a role model and argument in the fight for women‘s suffrage in Switzerland.
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Let‘s Consider Burma
Songtext by Chris Regn & Andrea Saemann
(Refrain) Lets consider Burma And the Monte Verità
Lets consider Burma
And the Monte Verità Kazimierz and Hellerau Zakopane Schreiberhau
Let’s go go go for it
(1) Life, you‘re my model and you look so good Lets go plein air inspired by the lighting mood
When artists put the landscape in the middle of their art They could safe the woods near Paris very smart
This happened long ago in the woods of Fontainebleau Barbizon the artist colony
made the woods a monument
The forest was named blue fountain – Fontainebleau
It was a wild and crazy place to go They made the woods a monument
(2) Laban wanted individuals and the landscape to appear To be collective without disappearing in fear
They practiced togetherness and movements in choirs
Light and people of MonteVerità inspired
The Place was full of excentrity and healing Empowerment, equality in rights and feeling
Atmospheric Spa
The hill was named true mountain – Monte Verità
It was a school for life, an utopian spa Vegetarian free love
(3) Swiss women mentioned Burma Citing their equality law
Taking it as a helping straw
To change in the end the Swiss law
When we find something abroad we can build translocals Bring it home and place it there to invent new vocals
A necessary proof to find a voice, a handshake Somewhere else‘s realities as a hint for good sake
To meet in summer for collective atmospheric strength Build structures to give artistis some breath, range and length
Bring lights in the park
Bright nights in the park
10th Land Art Festival/ Off Land Festival
place: Kazimierz, Polen
KuratorIn: Malgorzata Sady, Ewa Zarzycka, Paweł Korbus
Dokumentationstyp: Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action
Medium
Video 16:9
Dauer: ca 30 Minuten