SODA WORKS 2018
The SODA (Solo/Dance/Authorship) class of 2018 have compiled this publication to contain selected content from their individual thesis projects. These projects each consisted of a live performance - presented in December 2017, at the Uferstudios in Berlin - an artist work book, as a document of the creative process and a written essay, each explicating areas of independent research. It is the aim of this publication to present a selection of this material for public dissemination. The publication can be read in two directions: vertically as well as horizontally. You can choose from which perspective you would like to start. You can read the book from the beginning till the end and after that start again, this time reading from a different angle, or you can simply make fast changes, jumping from horizontal to vertical, from vertical to horizontal. It is just a matter of adjusting the object to your choices. The amount of changes is limitless.
The SODA (Solo/Dance/Authorship) class of 2018 have compiled this publication to contain selected content from their individual thesis projects. These projects each consisted of a live performance - presented in December 2017, at the Uferstudios in Berlin - an artist work book, as a document of the creative process and a written essay, each explicating areas of independent research. It is the aim of this publication to present a selection of this material for public dissemination.
The publication can be read in two directions: vertically as well as horizontally. You can choose from which perspective you would like to start. You can read the book from the beginning till the end and after that start again, this time reading from a different angle, or you can simply make fast changes, jumping from horizontal to vertical, from vertical to horizontal. It is just a matter of adjusting the object to your choices. The amount of changes is limitless.
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Imagine the craftsmen with their tech-kente helmets, navigating and keeping records of their products on a<br />
remote server, moving from the antagonistic period into the future.<br />
photo: Marion Borriss<br />
ost performance interventions.<br />
Can modus operandi of labour and corporality be considered as art?<br />
My performance work deals with the transformative potentials in traditional manual labour gestures and patterns<br />
with mythical concepts of Afro-futurism to poeticize and construct a new corporality of movement, sound, and visual<br />
imagery. The project entails methods of revising the societal dystopia of labour through a post-colonial lens.<br />
The basis of my work consists of field research as tangible social investigations of documenting labour engagements<br />
in the contrasting environments in Africa and Europe.<br />
The poetics of the performance employs time to facilitate a gradual transformation of the labour patterns through<br />
constant repetitions.I see physical labour more as a dance than work: it is action as well as procedure.
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