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Revolving Histories (#bangbang-1606)

The Anti-Productive Space
(2016)

https://www.patriciajacomella.com/
Jacomella Bonola, Patricia de Rande, Mercé (Performer)
Herlitz, Ray (Eventcurator)
Jacomella Bonola, Patricia (Camera)
Tags
Fashion Capitalism Conceptual Connecting Textiles Choreography Duo Documentation of a performance

Today's rapidly changing global fashion trends are only possible thanks to the exploitative business practices of international textile companies, which employ their workers under inhumane conditions. The return transportation of shiploads of discarded, unfashionable garments destroys the local textile industry in these very countries. My concept is based on the tension between production and anti-production. I am interested in how we can arrange artifacts in space in such a way that the above-mentioned theme is integrated into the performance as a visible element. For the realization of the action concept in the performance, I used a wool cord that was obtained by unraveling deposited knitwear. In collaboration with the choreographer Mercé de Rande, I use the 1,934-metre-long cord to immobilize both the entire space and the audience in the space, thus creating a state of immobility and an anti-productive moment. Garments, which normally protect and adorn our bodies, were not used in this case to emphasize our own individuality, but transformed into a means of creating a meditative moment.
Manifesta 11

place: Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
KuratorIn: Herlitz, Ray
Dokumentationstyp: Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action

Medium

Video 16:9
Dauer: 21 Min.