In Recess
Performance · Premiere by Alex Piasente-Szymański In the frame of Fold - Resonant Threads
In Recess
Performance · Premiere by Alex Piasente-Szymański In the frame of Fold - Resonant Threads
Recess is both an interruption and a secret place. Recess is the preparation for what is to come, not visible at first glance. Recess is organised doing nothing.
The solo performance ”In Recess” deals with the space between labour and pausing, as well as the possibility of refusing to do something. What would it mean not to get lost in work while the world is on fire?
Taking pausing as a starting point, Alex Piasente-Szymański uses voice, sound and body to develop a choreography of shared reflection. Does the discourse become the performance or the performance become the discourse?
”In Recess” is a proposal to think together about questions of work in times of crisis. Can art contribute to change at all in the way we produce it? What remains of art if we close ourselves off to its poetic character? How can we continue in a meaningful way?
Duration
1 hour
Credits
Concept & Performance: Alex Piasente-Szymański
Music & Sound: Oldyungmayn
Stage: Mara Kirchberg
Dramaturgical support: Yoav Admoni
Light: N.N.
In co-operation with Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the City of Berlin, with the support of the Norbert Janssen Foundation.
Alex Piasente-Szymański (he/him) is a Berlin-based disabled artist, dramaturge, translator and audio writer. Before studying Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen, he studied singing at the HfmDk in Stuttgart and at the Royall College of Music in London. Piasente-Szymański's work and research is dedicated to questions of body politics and its management as well as manipulation through health economics. He is interested in how these issues fit into a wider global political context of political struggle. Together with the performance collective BOIKOTT Piasente-Szymański develop the music theatre piece ‘Vis á Vis’ at the Ackerstadt Palast and collaborated with collectives and artists such as the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop, Nico and the Navigators or the choreographer Marie-Lena Kaiser and the artist Anna Lublina.
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