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SameSame

Annika Elisabeth Althoff

Jessica Schuhmann

Student

Annika Elisabeth Althoff Jessica Schuhmann

Academic staff

Andreas Bernhard Josef Metzner-Szigeth Lucie Strecker Italo Zuffi

Course

Studio Interact – PERFORM, BODY

Program

BA Major Art

Semester

2020/21 SS

How are you?
How are you.
How are you?
Hello.
I’m fine.
I’m fine too.
Fine.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately.
I’m fine too.
I’m fine.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately.
Yes.
Yes.
What does it mean?
Are you asking?
I’m fine.
Fine.
Fine
But that’s too much.
How much do I know you?
Hello?
Are we talking?
Are you answering?
Are you asking?

Discussing language on a structural level. Using it, taking it apart, singling something out, re-writing it. Finding yourself in a mimic, discovering a new tone. A mirror, a handshake. SameSame is a conversational piece that circles around imitation and the disassembling of language, creating new connections.

A project made in the course

Studio Interact – PERFORM, BODY

‘Command’ is the topic our Studio chose for this Summer semester 2020 – and it just occurred that, since early March, a set of instructions and rules has been shaping our interhuman behaviour. Simultaneously, a relatively new teaching format got as well rapidly implemented by all schools, so to allow continuity in education in the sanitary emergency. We started our online classes with a mix of frustration and thrill. Staying forcibly separated from each other, at the beginning felt like an objective limitation to our dialogue and work process – yet, distance got gradually perceived as an opportunity to test one of the formats that performance allows.

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