Shortlist LIVE! 2021
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (pl/uk): the tremble
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, The tremble, part of The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together, 2017. Performance view, CONVERSO, Milan, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
The tremble is the first episode of the work The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together which unfolds over four episodes.
The work enacts a choreographic mediation on the relationships between touch, intimacy, loss and collectivity. Each episode has its specific embodied vocabulary through which the performers navigate intimate and fragmentary exchanges reflecting on the edges of subjectivity, corporeality and relationality. In this choreography Baczynski-Jenkins develops vocabularies that range from micro-gestures to poems, social dances and their abstractions. An important part of his work is the use of performance as an agent for what he describes as ‘other-worlding’. Expressions of care and empathy lose their usual conventions and representations and are found through micro-gestures, figures of entanglement and dances. Instead of a plot, there is a plotting of an affective field embodied by queer affections that circulate between the performers.
Schedules and seat reservations: https://antifestival.com/en/tapahtuma/alex-baczynski-jenkins-pl-uk-the-tremble/
keyon gaskin (us): its not a thing
Photo: Robert Duncan.
Schedules and seat reservations: https://antifestival.com/en/tapahtuma/keyon-gaskin-us-its-not-a-thing/
Florentina Holzinger (AT): APOLLOn
Photo: Radovan Dranga.
Six women tackle the neoliberalist cult of the body with all their performative brilliance and vicious physical virtuosity. The performance limbos between the aesthetics of an occult fitness-studio, a cyborg-bullfight and neoclassical ballet.
Florentina Holzinger combines fin de siècle freakshow and 1960s live art, offering a new perspective on the rupture between high art and entertainment culture. Through this humorous and furious destruction of a classical narrative Holzinger addresses the myth of this supposedly perfect woman, the artist herself. These perfect women – what do they even want?
This performance contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing.
Additional support: Austrian Embassy Helsinki & Goethe-Institut Finnland
Schedules and seat reservation: https://antifestival.com/en/tapahtuma/florentina-holzinger-at-apollon/
Narcissister (us): Narcissister
Photo: Marc Abrahams.
The New York based artist and performer Narcissister presents an evening-length set consisting of video and live performance works from her repertoire.
Narcissister’s performances refigure narcissism through radical acts of self love, acts that, in turn, reveal and conceal the racializing and eroticizing effects of our commodity-driven culture. Covered by mask and merkin, Narcissister plays with the limits of burlesque, masquerade, and performance art as she uncovers her body and its potential to animate objecthood.
Schedules and seat reservations: https://antifestival.com/en/tapahtuma/narcissister-lives/