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Invocations of Remembrance
2021
Invocations of Remembrance is a performative exploration of the sensory connection between human and more-than-human entities. Through different tangible and invisible objects, a timeless landscape is evoked in which human figures engage in a silent language of dance and gestures. Human figures interact with organic shaped entities withholding animated mineral landscapes, tracing the presence of invisible entities with their fingers and communicating through a long-lost language of gestures.
Clay stones resembling prehistoric stone tools, are receivers of touch and whispers, remembering ancient magical practices and their relationship with language beyond words. Hanging objects made of knotted fibre strings resembling pre-colonial rrecording devises of the Andes, destroyed by the European colonial enterprise, leaving only a few hundred surviving objects. Today, most of the content remains unknown. While doing knots human figures try to evoke the memory of objects whose meaning has been lost.
Concept, text, installation, editing: Paola Bascón
Performance: Areli Morán, Sharon Mercado Nogales, Paola Bascón, Thomas Proksch
Performance-Scores: Areli Morán, Paola Bascón
Music / Soundtrack: Thomas Proksch
Costumes: Carlotta Scholz, Luise Schumacher
Cinematography: Esra Tanriverdi, Froilán Urzagasti Montero
Video-Postproduction: Froilán Urzagasti Montero
With the kind support of PSR / Heizhaus
Funded by NEUSTART KULTUR / Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - kulturstaatsministerin.de