What is the line between monotony and violence?

wet hair violence

Katharina Theresa Mayr

performance

Student

Katharina Theresa Mayr

Academic staff

Italo Zuffi Lucie Strecker Gerhard Glüher

Course

Theory and Practice of the Performing Body

Program

BA Major Art

Semester

2019/20 WS

the content of this performance is dedicated to repetition and what happens during the process to the body itself. an action was repeated 20 times in a row with the same care and attitude. It deals with the sudden – but subtle – shift in role models. a caring action of washing somebody‘s hair turns into something brutal, an act of silent violence and trembling bodies. the space and the performers themselves non verbally talk about a specific stereotypical role model and how to break it. the mirror shows the second, emotional persona hidden inside the woman who is yet again taking the shampoo bottle to wash someone else‘s hair for another time.

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Theory and Practice of the Performing Body

Studio INTERACT | BA Major Art Teaching module | Interaction/Performance supervised by: Italo Zuffi (Studio Leader) Aim of this Studio is to explore the expressive and narrative potentials of the body, and employ it as direct work tool to design and implement projects involving a live engagement. The process we will follow is partly based on a pre-defined structure dealing with both physical and analytical work, and partly meant to allow self-generative extensions in relation to the dynamics and outcomes we will create. Inner listening – that is, the capability to define the atmospheric qualities of our state of presence and connection. We will often refer to it as a way by means of which to closely observe and assess our works, from concept to execution.

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