Amina Szecsödy
(Frankfurt/Stockholm)
Operators
Mousonturm Studio 1
Hessische Theaterakademie/Performance
- 10.09.2022, 6.30 p.m.Solidarity-based pricing system (you choose): € 7 / € 11 / € 20 / € 35
- 11.09.2022, 8 p.m.Solidarity-based pricing system (you choose): € 7 / € 11 / € 20 / € 35
“Operators” by Amina Szecsödy looks to pervert the roles of female telephone operators active throughout Europe and North America from the late 1800 to 1970’s. The work takes its cue from the mechanized, feminized voices of comfort, control and direction that continue to play a massive role in choreographing the private and public today, from the dulcet tones of necro-capitalism to the weather forecast. These voices without bodies and the spit filled mouths that generate them. Who do these distant, garbled voices on the other end line belong to? Who maintains these split subjectivities? What is the significance of that wavery unstable hum that bears an alarming resemblance to heavy breathing? Szecsödy’s work functions as a subterranean switchboard, connecting women and their disembodied voices across time and space. “Operators” probes the human aspects of these disembodied voices, working backwards to propose mutant hosts.
Cast & Credits
Concept, text, direction: Amina Szecsödy
With: Amina Szecsödy, Gry Tingskog, Katja Cheraneva
Dramaturgy: Anneliese Ostertag
Artistic advice: Lena Appel
Costume: Laura Stellaci
Music: Maya Lourenço
Light: Gry Tingskog
Technical assistance: Eoghan Ryan
Thanks to: Nina Nadig, Livia Andrea Piazza, Chloe Chignell, Andrea Szecsödy, Eoghan Ryan, Luis Garay, Bojana Kunst, Mikael Al Safandi & Rose Beermann.
A production by Amina Szecsödy, in co-production with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and the Master program Choreography and Performance at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and the Hessischen Theaterakademie, with the kind support of Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main and Fonds Darstellende Künste.
Biography
Amina Szecsödy
Amina Szecsödy (b. 1995, Sweden) is a performance maker based between Frankfurt and Brussels. Her work incorporates quotations, sound design, scriptwriting, and collaboration, channeling the dissonant voices of the past and future in the immediate present. Via this process of ‘siphoning off’, Szecsödy develops new complexities and combinations of language and gesture, specifically in relation to the performance of automated labor and the ‘female’ voice.
Szecsödy holds a BA in Performing Arts from Malmö Theatre Academy and is currently finishing her MA in Choreography and Performance at Giessen University. Recent works and collaborations include the play Ge mig en fast punkt och jag ska rubba jorden for Teater Västernorrland, Rear Windows (Deutsches Filminstitut Frankfurt) Condition report (Kunstverein Frankfurt) & RAUBKOPIE (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm & Thalia Theater, nominated for Körber Studio für Junge Regie). Szecsödy is a founding member of the Stockholm based artist collective coyote (coyote.pt). She is currently developing the work Shadow text together with Chloe Chignell, and a new solo work premiering in 2023.