Work-out[s]
(shown on the Springification performance evening, 14 April 2019)
“the important feature of the sticking-plaster is its edge [...] appears as imaginatively erased wound or mark is more powerfully pleasurable than the merely virgin surface”
(CONNOR, S. (2004) The book of skin. London and Ithaca)
There is a contradiction between unshareability of emotional pain through its resistance to language and the crave for expression. Pain in a way reverse us to a pre-language state. The concept of "work" makes private events shareable. The process of tearing off plasters does not reveal any wounds or scars on the body, because our emotional wounds are invisible for others and could not be healed the way the skin is. Kinesio bodytape, that marking the skin, becomes rather a clue to inner working, as well as tension of muscles in a variety of yoga poses. The mat is a personal/intimate space but at the same time — a tactile mat-erial, substitution of the body for sharing, receiving support and making abstract sensations more tangible. Performance work-out[s] is an attempt to create a visual and haptic language in a situation where the spoken words failed to communicate
in a frame of Springification performance evening in MA Space (Centre for Artist Residency and Education), Riga, Latvia
with a support of Latvian performance art centre
photo from event by Anna Maskava, photo of the artwork by Anastasia Shneps-Shneppe
