Liminal Wild: live
In the post-Covidian times when we have moved on from the pandemic, we should still think about the conflicts the pandemic had directed us to and left us in: conflicts between nation state and people; between countries; and between ideologies. Certain narratives are created to serve people’s need for an enemy. In this work, through embodying bats and sparrows, I found a good entry to the political engagement as an artist and researcher. These species provide materials to understand the causes, potentials, dangers, and damages of the hero-villain narratives. And they are the new materials which host resistance of a divided society and the lurking autocracy. The body of the bat, the place embedding so much about liminality, is where we find resolutions to the increasingly polarised world.
work credits:
project supported by CBK Rotterdam
costume: DRAGA DINA
articulating wings: Gökay Atabek (Volksamt!)
track produced by QB
event documentation: Pieter Kers
photography for artwork: Helena Roig
Evidence in Motion, iii The Hague
Synergy Festival, Flevopark Amsterdam
Samodiva, Poing Rotterdam