erase remake examines personal
and collective history(ies) in a quasi-archaeological approach. The relationship of one’s own identity to the body is
the recurring point of reference. The performance explores the possibilities of (re)positioning. Live transmitted images of body parts are playfully erased or reassembled. In the process, a narrative of the struggle for personal autonomy and the limits of self-awareness unfolds.
A performative field of tension is created by the simultaneity of the live performance and its time-delayed repetition and variation on the screen. The handling of the technology is so virtuosic (which in turn contrasts beautifully with the casual actions of the performer during the open conversions) that the audience is happy to fall for every optical trick, although no secret is made of the artificial production of the images. The final curtain falls again and again as an image within an image, until it has duplicated itself so many times that it finally erases itself in the depths of the two-dimensional projection. Remake and erase. (Judith Helmer, corpusweb)
Those who do not stop looking for themselves and each other dance. Out of ignorance or against their better judgment. The defiance or awkwardness of the actors, the constant reassurance that what you can’t see is still there – that’s pop. (Hannes Seidl, program booklet, Diskursfestival Gießen)
Credits
Video, performance Jan Machacek
Music Martin Siewert, dieb13
A co-production of am apparat and brut Wien