What is the body?
Why and how does the body produce its movement?
Is it my body or am I a part of it?
Can the body move independently of me?
How does the body feel, how does it think?
How much does the space around the body influence it?
How do the environment, ecology, and politics influence the body?
How does it construct and deconstruct itself?
How does the body deconstruct into continually becoming?
The project explores the body as an event in constant making. The body is in a state of becoming. It is a verb, an action, a force. It is never a shape, a form. This project not only explores the body as a force of becoming, but it also explores the becoming of that force – at the experiential and relational level. The movement never stops, as breathing is an ongoing movement, just as the cells in the body move constantly. This project aims to give priority to detecting and raising awareness of patterns of bodily reactions and impulses. It deals with the body from the impulse itself to the visible action of the body in and through space. The interest is focused on developing awareness of the body movement process and the diversity and richness of movement vocabulary.
The project begining
Body Sensitivity is the topic of the project. Sensitivity, in philosophy, is the fundamental power of a person to directly perceive the external reality of the world by the senses, that is, to perceive directly with the senses, on the basis of which reason receives sensations, reactions, ideas, images, sounds, etc.
From the idea and research
to the first public sharing of the process
Public private, private public
Sitting at home during a pandemic, the established daily routine disappears, and with it the social continuity of identity becomes uncertain. Future outcomes, once taken for granted, are revalued. Upon the disintegration of the current order, a fluid, changing state of affairs arises that allows possibilities for the future establishment of distinct customs. The performer is in the process of becoming. It is a process of losing structure, waiting, and looking for a new one. It is only the physical space in which the body resides every day without exception that remains. Visual and tactile-spatial experience is combined with direct gestures of everyday body functionality. A transforming identity can only be created through the only interaction that is possible, that of the virtual world.
The research deals with private / public space within which the recreation of identity becomes visible through body movements. Through imagining interaction with society, identity is artificially constructed by copying acceptable patterns of behavior taken from virtual public space.
The performance space is a private apartment that the curious audience sees as a voyeur. The audience directs their view from the darkened auditorium through the window of the fourth performance wall and at the same time through the virtual window of the live stream performance from the mobile phone, which is visible on the social network Facebook.
Essentially, she is stuck between her previous way of organizing her identity and time, and the novel way that performance establishes, which is unknown, and perhaps impossible.
Idea, choreography, performance, scenography, costume design, lighting, production:
Nikolina Komljenović
Production:
ekscena
With the support of:
Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the Center for Culture Trešnjevka
Thanks:
Oliver Gemballa, Maša Barišić, Nika Štriga, Tomislav Turković, Virna Kirac, Tesa Herceg, Lara Brkić, Maddalena Avon
In Public
The RELATIONSHIP between TOUCH, SPACE, and TEXTURE is built simultaneously. Working on identifying, articulating, differentiating, and integrating various tasks simultaneously in public and touristic areas.
Residence The Giro d’Italia, co-residency program organized by DISCOllective and Erràtica laboratorio d’arte permanente in co-production with ekscena in province of Campania (Capaccio, Agropoli, Paestum, Piana del Sele, Parco Nacionale del Vesuvio, Pompei, Naples), 2022.
Author, co-choreographer, dancer, co-producer:
Nikolina Komljenović
Thanks to:
Božidar Šumi, Elena Dragonetti, Rosita Taurinas, Venceslao Cembalo