Revolving Histories (#bangbang-0053)
Moving Backwards
(2019)
http://movingbackwards.ch/
Starting with the feeling of being pushed backwards by recent reactionary backlashes, "Moving Backwards" explores resistance practices, combining postmodern choreography and urban dance with guerrilla techniques and elements of queer underground culture. A film installation with five performers from diverse dance backgrounds complicates the notion of backwards movements and their temporal and spatial meaning. Parts of the walks, solos and group dances are carried out backwards, others are digitally reversed, creating doubt and ambiguities for the installation on the whole. In an environment that the artists call an abstract club, the uncanny experience of temporal and spatial insecurity is complemented by a moment of reflection on the planetary politics of "Moving Backwards" with letters written to the audience in a newspaper by a number of artists, choreographers, activists and scholars.
Additional
The artists hold the rights to present the video. If you wish to present the work, please contact them directly: boudry-lorenz@snafu.de
Remark
This is the catalog of the exhibition and performance at the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019.
All the photos document the film of performances, the installation and live performances on site.
Biennale di Venezia
place: Swiss Pavillion
KuratorIn: Laubard, Charlotte
Dokumentationstyp: Performance/Aktion für die Kamera / Performance/Action for the Camera
Medium
Video 16:9
Dauer: 20:36