This glossary accompanies the performance “She turns her head, she lifts the pen” and takes the form of a poster/flyer that can be taken away. It can function, in exhibition settings, as a trace, or a mapping, a stand-in, or an extension of the performance, which is ephemeral. It uses images from the three different scenes of the performance – Berlin 1989, Paris 1968, Cairo 2012 – and sketches the philosophical, neurobiological, physiological, psychological, and anthropological connotations of the different gestures/movements (circling, interrupting, repeating, standing still,…) that are found in the footage and form the basis of the performance’s choreography.
First created as an insert into Springerin magazine (January 2014), a poster version has been developed as part of the edition Scriptings #42. The Poster is laid out and placed in such a way that it itself invites a small choreography of bending down, reading, circling.
Das Poster funktioniert als Glossar zur Performance “She turns her head, she lifts the pen”, als weitere Ebene der Bearbeitung dreier Dokumente (post-)revolutionärer Momente entlang der in diesen enthaltenen Gesten und Bewegungen. Als Layout und Objekt im Raum bedingt es beim Lesen eine eigene Abfolge von Bewegungen.
Entwickelt als Beitrag für Springerin – Hefte zur Gegenwart, I/2014 “Chronic Times” und als Posterversion für Scriptings #42, 2014.
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