hybrid format
With this project we are archiving the phenomenon of S.M. within our dance scene. We do this because we are interested in how and where the sensual experience of performing arts is stored. Because we are collaborators of that work, we see the outline of the work of S. M. and we are interested in how we can articulate and present it, because we have been watching this work for many years and we care about its continuance and affirmation. Because we are interested in where the performances and embodied choreographic thoughts are when they are not performed. Because we are interested in how practices develop over time, how they involve and affect the environment of which they are a part, and how they let the environment affect them.
During the four days of the ANTISEZONA block, the S. M. Archive manifests in the form of:
- DAY 1 – Establishment of the S. M. Archive at the Museum of Contemporary Art – Where is the S. M. Archive already?
- DAY 2 – Establishment of the S. M. Archive in Cinema Grič – Where is the performance when it’s not performed?
- DAY 3 – Opening of the work process of the S. M. Archive in the form of a one-day archive laboratory – How do we define the sensual object of a choreographic archive? or What are the sensual objects of choreography, dance, performance, I. E. their archive?
- DAY 4 – Relocation of the S. M. Archive into performance metabolism – Whose archive is it? Who is archiving this archive? Relocation is happening as part of the intermedia performance The Saddest Method. Ever. – Performance Landscape of Low Potential and High Risk.
We invite you to all the events so we can review together a collection of choreographic thoughts, gestures that allow space for other gestures to emerge, performed and experienced movements, time and space, prints in images on corneal retinas and in proprioceptive body systems that prepared and performed or watched them.
ARCHIVISTS: Sonja Pregrad, Curio Kitheca, Tea Kantoci
PRODUCTION: Object of Dance
Realized with the support of the City Office for Culture of the City of Zagreb