Feb 16+17. Passivity Rules / Memories of Being Hanged. Tova Gerge & Britta Kiessling
Passivity Rules/Memories of Being Hanged is a performance based on movement and speech, building on experiences of being tied, especially in the context of rope bondage. The piece is a spin-off of the performance Someone You Trust (from 2018).
Passivity rules are systems where passivity facilitates something, opens up something. It is also an interjection, puting passivity first: Passivity rules! Memories of being hanged stands for experiences of losing control over one’s passivity, being close to dying or disappearing, concretely or metaphorically.
Passivity Rules/Memories of Being Hanged is about what is going on in a body that seems to sink, let go, lose its grip – or that actually does.
Here, passivity is related to femininity. Our entry point to that is feminist. It’s not that we want to demonstrate that Women Can Do It (be active). Rather, we want to examine passivity as a lived experience, demanding competences and having consequences.
Text, choreography, performers: Tova Gerge and Britta Kiessling
Third eye and : Caroline Byström
Sound: Elize Arvefjord
Scenography, costume, light, documentation: Ekaterina Lukoshkova
Coproduction: Nyxxx and Skogen
With the financial support of The Swedish Arts Grant Committee and The Swedish Arts Council.
Thanks to Weld Company and MDT Stockholm.
TOVA GERGE
is a writer, performer and project manager active primarily in the fields of literature, theatre and dance. Her artistic interests often concern questions of power, body politics and subversive intimacy, with modes of working influenced by activist culture, contemporary dance and game design. She is a member of the performing arts collective Nyxxx, the publishing house Dockhaveri and the artist-run production plattform Skogen.
BRITTA KIESSLING
is a performance maker and performer also working with text and service. She has an interest in the structures of power dealing with desire, and not least the possibility for love. When working with questions of consent and intimacy, she wants to enter these processes from a queer feminist perspective, also trusting intuition and affects.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm