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Revolving Histories (#bangbang-0142)

breathing psoas
(2021)

https://www.anja-plonka.ch
Plonka, Anja Plonka, Anja (Performance)
Gaia (Performer)
Ziegler, Anna (Camera)
Plonka, Anja (Camera)
Tags
vwg:declare 2021 Video 16:9 Body Art Body experience Circulation Transforming Memory Liquids Animals

Based on her own experiences of sexual violence, the performer explores associated bodily phenomena such as pain, tension, heat, fear, disgust and anger in her performance video. The body as a place of violence and pain transforms these memories with the help of somatic body practices. The performer's naked body enters into a connection with an animal, stones, water, wind and plants. Inspired by "The Camille Stories" by Donna Haraway, the video attempts to concretize this utopia. In search of a utopian existence, the body breathes through and into the landscape. Stone to skin, breath to wind, stone to vulva, smoke to blood, water to wind. The magical-poetic transformation of the body allows the landscape to appear as a somatic body and psychogram. The video aims to create visibility for a taboo subject and is an ode to all traumatized bodies.
Additional
Premiere/Vorführungen: 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival FUTURETRO at Kozia Square Athen, Greece International Conference on Artistic Research: Various Fields, Approaches, Experiences, PERFORMATIVE ARTS; Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga 49. Athens International Film + Video Festival, Ohio USA 28. Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg 42. Filmfestival Göttingen, Wettbewerb Golden Shorts, Preis: Bestes Klangbild 29. BLICKE FILMFESTIVAL DES RUHRGEBIETS Bochum, Violence:The fourth Biennial PARSE Research Conference, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg
Remark
Fluhsee, Lenk, Schweiz. Performance-Film, Schweiz 2021, 14:59 min. Anja Plonka: Konzept, Regie, Performance, 2. Kamera, Schnitt Anna Ziegler: Kamera Rasmus Nordholt-Frieling: Sound Design Marko Stefanovic: Ton und dramaturgische Begleitung Anais Rödel: dramaturgische Begleitung Markus Jendrosch: Assistenz
Filmfest Bochum

place: Fluhsee Lenk - Wildstrubelgletscher
Dokumentationstyp: Performance/Aktion für die Kamera / Performance/Action for the Camera

Medium

Video 16:9
Dauer: 15 min