Notebook
Themes such as lust, sexuality, excess, innocence, pain and ephemerality are addressed in the form of performative notes that manifest themselves in a plurality of voices, images, bodies and objects. The notebook, as an indispensable companion of the artistic process, a private archive of creative work and a storehouse of ideas for imagined future projects, thus reflects Bachzetsis’ artistic affinity for the fragmentary, sketchy, unfinished in creative and performative thinking processes.
In Notebook, the body becomes a physical archive of other bodies, the most subversive form of presentation of experience as well as a place of permanent mediation between past and present, event and documentation, liveliness and mediality, originality and quotativeness.
is a choreographer and visual artist based in Zurich. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of dance, performance, the visual arts and theatre, generating a conflation of the spaces in which the body, as an artistic and critical apparatus, can manifest. Over the past two decades, Bachzetsis has created more than 30 works, which have been shown in theatres, museums, biennials, and festivals around the world, including Kunsthaus Zurich; the Art Institute of Chicago; the MoMA New York; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; the Jumex Museum, Mexico City; Kunsthalle Basel; documenta 14; the Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva; (d)OCUMENTA 13 and the 5th Berlin Biennial.
Credits
Concept, choreography Alexandra Bachzetsis Collaboration concept, dramaturgy Dorota Sajewska Collaboration choreography, performance Alexandra Bachzetsis, Antoine Weil, Alban Schelbert Collaboration choreography, movement research Owen Ridley-DeMonick Dialogue and research partners in chronological order Lies Vanborm, Safiya Sinclair, Michel Auder, Emi Curty, Zeltia Robin, Marco Delgado, Nadine Fuchs, Lili-Marlo Delgado Fuchs, Mélissa Biondo, Loren Tschannen, Antoine Weil, Owen Ridley-DeMonick Music, sound design Alban Schelbert Organ played by Joseph Schelbert recorded by Alban Schelbert Music production ‘Kokainopotis’ in Athens Bouzouki played by Manoulis Pappos, classical guitar played Marios Mourmouras recorded and edited by Stefanos Konstantinidis, Nassos Sopilis / Fabrika Music Collaboration costume design, conceptual advice, research Christian Hersche, Ulla Ludwig, Laurent Progin Hermann Communication design Julia Born Photography Diana Pfammatter Photography assistant Andrea Ebener Hair and make-up shooting Delia Scullio, Helve Leal Technical direction, collaboration stage, light design Patrik Rimann Production, management Association All Exclusive, Marlene Bürgi Administration Association All Exclusive Archive management, research Jean-Marie Fahy Coproduction Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Gessnerallee Zurich, Tanzquartier Vienna, TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon, Kaserne Basel, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne Thanks to Giovanni Carmine, Sotiris Vasiliou, Adam Szymczyk Supported by the cooperative support agreement between the City of Zurich, the Canton of Zurich, and Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, Ernst Göhner Stiftung
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