Sandra Noeth/Siegmar Zacharias/Soumyabrata Choudhury
(Berlin/Neu-Delhi)
In Conversation #6: Im/Purity
auf deiner Couch
Discussion
- 16.06.2020, 6 p.m. (CET)via Youtube-Livestream
“In Conversation #6” approaches the idea of the integrities of the body from the perspective of im/purity. Soumyabrata Choudhury – based on observations from the Indian context – and Siegmar Zacharias – reflecting on her artistic practice with uncontrollable material such as slime or drool – discuss how bodies become bordering territories in the process: how is a body’s capacity to participate in society linked to and defined by imaginations and representations of shame, danger, or uncleanness? How are political forms of control and governance enforced by embodied, visceral, and affective experiences?
Language: English
Live stream via youtube
All videos of the series are available here until June 28, 2020.
Cast & Credits
Live Streaming: jascha bernhard, sriram srivigneswaramoorthy, nyx.news
„Unversehrtheit: Conversations on the Integrities of the Body” ist ein Projekt von Künstlerhaus Mousonturm mit Sandra Noeth im Rahmen von „Corponomy – Politiken des Körpers in Tanz, Performance und Gesellschaft“, gefördert durch die Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, und im Rahmen von „DTM – Digitaler Mousonturm“, gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen des Bündnisses internationaler Produktionshäuser, unterstützt durch das Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz Berlin.
Biography
Sandra Noeth
Sandra Noeth, professor at HZT – Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin, has been active internationally as a curator and dramaturge, specializing in ethical and political perspectives toward body-practice and theory. Noeth acted as the Head of Dramaturgy and Research at Tanzquartier Wien (2009–2014). Recent publications include “Resilient Bodies, Residual Effects: Artistic Articulations of Borders and Collectivity from Lebanon and Palestine” (2019, transcript) and “Bodies of Evidence: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of Movement” (2018, with G. Ertem, Passagen). As an educator, she was a Senior Lecturer at SKH-Stockholm University of the Arts (2012-2020) and a Resident Professor at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2015-16). See https://www.udk-berlin.de/personen/detailansicht/person/show/sandra-noeth/
Biography
Siegmar Zacharias
Siegmar Zacharias is a performance maker, researcher, curator. She explores the politics of alienation and intimacy in embodied thinking/being with matter and matters in collaborations with humans and non-humans. Her work has been shown internationally. It develops formats of performances, installations, discursive encounters dealing with questions of agency, ecology of artistic practice, modes of visceral rationalities. Learning from uncontrollable materials like, smoke, slime, swamps, earthquakes, the nervous system Zacharias is working towards a posthuman feminist poet(h)ics. Zacharias studied philosophy und comparative literature in Berlin (FU) and London (UCL) and performance at DasArts Amsterdam. She teaches internationally and is a regular guest lecturer at DOCH Stockholm, HZT Berlin, Bard College Berlin. Since 1993 she has been working on non-violent communication strategies with workers’ representatives. She is a Phd candidate at Roehampton University on a AHRC TECHNE scholarship.
Biography
Soumyabrata Choudhury
Soumyabrata Choudhury is a theater maker and Professor for Theater and Performance Studies. He currently teaches at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. He has previously taught at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Kolkata, and has been a fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi and at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) in Shimla. His book “Theatre, Number, Event: Three Studies on the Relationship of Sovereignty, Power and Truth” was published by IIAS, Shimla in 2013. His new book “Ambedkar and Other Immortals: An Untouchable Research Programme” came out in 2018. He has also acted and directed in a number of performances across the country for the last thirty years. His latest performance was an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s story “A report to the Academy” at the Expression Lab, Pune, in July 2019.