As part of their residency at ZoeEspace between January and June 2018, the two performers Antonia Ravens and Zina Vaessen explored different bodily states and phenomena arising from the interplay between performers and audience members.
In Das Quartier in uns, these phenomena of intersubjective exchange are conceptualized through the notion of resonance. Resonance describes the experience of being affected by a movement produced by someone other than oneself for example: seeing someone yawn.
Das Quartier in uns is a 30-minute research performance investigating the interaction between performer and audience member. The inquiry was guided by the following question: How does another person’s attention affect one’s bodily state within the context of a live performance, and how can this effect be made visible and choreographically productive?
The two performers also use the framework of a stage situation to point toward a socio-political issue: according to which criteria do we distribute our attention, and how do these criteria shape and manipulate what we perceive? How can we direct and shape what takes place both within ourselves and outside of us?
In the frame
of their residency at ZoeEspace in Basel, Switzerland, between January and June
2018 the two performers Antonia Ravens and Zina Vaessen investigated different
states of the body and phenomena of the interplay between performers and
audience members. In Das Quartier in uns these phenomena of inter-subjective exchange are conceptualized through the
notion of phenomena of resonance. Phenomena of resonance describe a being
affected with a movement that is produced by someone else than myself (e.g.: I
see someone yawning.) Das Quartier in uns is a 30 minutes long research, that investigates the interaction between
performer and audience member. The inquiry was guided by the following
research: How does the attention of another person affect one´s bodily state in
the context of a live performance and how can this effect be made visible and
choreographically productive. The two performers use the frame of a stage situation also in
order to hint at a socio-political problematic: according to which criteria do
we distribute our attention and how do these criteria manipulate what we
perceive? How to steer and shape that which takes place within and outside of
ourselves?
