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09.23. 20:00
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Cracks Are How The Light Gets In
/A repedéseken beszűrődő fény/
Deirdre Morris előadása.
2015 / 09 / 23 / 20.00 | Müszi Művelődési Szint
Butoh, akrobatika, video
Egy nő a középkorúvá érés útján. Test és lélek – a szépség, az erő, az értelem belső ösvényei és társadalmi kivetülései.
A belépés ingyenes, adományt elfogadunk.
Cracks Are How The Light Gets In is a solo performance project based in questions of
success, intellectual inquiry, family and beauty, as women reaching their midforties
without any of the traditional ideas of what these could look like. I am working with
choreographer IuHui Chua and visual media artist Brandon Gonzalez, directing the
work that we will be devising together. Cracks Are How The Light Gets In offers an
eveninglength experience of live performance, multimedia video work, dance, physical
theater, connection and revelation. Together we are looking to uncover and reveal the
vulnerable and tender spaces in our bodies conditioned by notions of normative
success. Mainstream media culture has a narrowing effect on our lives. When the
images it offers us are internalized, it narrows our definitions of beauty, power,
intelligence and well being. It teaches us there is only one way to be successful, and
that way is dictated by the dominant culture.
Our identities are often portrayed in the media in tropes and stereotypes that
misrepresent our actual lived experiences. This perpetuates those systems of
oppression that allow sexism and racism to prevail in our society. It is the task of those
of us that are marginalized by this portrayal of success to create our own shared spaces
to celebrate our underrepresented, shared experiences.
How do we reclaim our representation in popular media? How do we celebrate the lived
experience of our everyday lives and the struggle against invisibility, invalidation and
assimilation? Seeing through the lens of queer/ed bodies, politics and questions of
image in a virtual world become the lens we see our lives through. How do we share our
vitality, mastery, knowledge and strength?
Inspried by a passage in Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things To Me, Cracks Are How
The Light Gets In provokes questions of identity, womanhood and power interpreted as
physical scores played out as a memory game. The intertwining of time, place and
space as a metaphor to understand the howwegottowherewearetoday
in a media culture dominated by a normative idea of success and power
that does not include shared lived experience but rather reaches for an ideal that is part automaton
part technological cyborg. Our interest is in the flesh experience of the body and the
sociological impact our shifting norms are wreaking on our tissues, nervous systems
and ideas of success in the world.
We embark on our journey of the aging female self through both the technological and
analogue realms of society. Through images devised as a psychological digging that
shows up as videos distorted through looping displayed on the body as they are made,
a real time inquiry into image is made, and how we are seen through the lens of an
actual camera and the body manipulating that camera is revealed. A duet that uses
undressing in front of a “mirror of audience eyes” reveals how we and the audience view
an aging but still vital body. Utilizing contact improvisation, partnering acrobatics and
contemporary dance practices illuminates a virtuosic and physically fit body in a
sequence of choreography that is repeated as a way to mark the accumulation in time.
Unveiling the bodily states we are fraught and gifted with through Butoh and
state of being practices that are simultaneously disturbing and meditatively rich, allows
for the folding of our bodies like paper in a stream…What does it do to see us weaving
a nest of ropes and clothes pins? How is the circumscription of a body in a nest
revealing our understanding of home, comfort, a new reality?
Like forging a new kind of 21st century ritual, I am interested in dipping into the magic of
the threads of connection representing a time, place or history in maps displayed on our
bodies, revealing the different kinds of strength, beauty, vitality and wisdom that is
acquired through the experience of aging.
Free entrance, donations accepted.