Writing the body with the body consists of fragments taken from performance texts by Stefanie Knobel, which are juxtaposed with a series of pictures created for this volume – that of a geochemical earth conditioned by colonial excesses, one that begins to speak to a world that cuts through geological materialities along coloured lines. An omnipresent technological surveillance tool has eyes without eyelids and looks at the viewer without interruption. Rendered in rhythms and in twelve manifestations for the quasi-public, words and images are woven into a new fabulation: a performance as a book.
On this evening, Stefanie Knobel engages in a conversation with curator María Montero Sierra and her research project and eponymous publication Fishing Fly. While the many voices in Writing the body with the body speak through, with and as the earth and of what profitable human behavior does and has done to it, the many voices in Fishing Fly pose the question of how we get our hands back in the water. This also connects to Stefanie Knobel and Samrat Banerjee's current production, which premieres at the Gessnerallee in January 2022.
The Book Launch will be accompanied by a DJ set by Franziska Koch.
The two-volume edition Writing the body with the body / Writing the body with the body - essays, texts and performances with essays by Samrat Banerjee, Najrin Islam and Ines Kleesattel will be published as volume 9 in the series Primeur of the Aargauer Kuratorium by Edition Fink, 2020.
The series Fishing Fly with texts by Amanda Choo Quan and Alexis Pauline Gumbs is edited by María Montero Sierra and published by TBA21–Academy.
Writing the body with the body consists of fragments taken from performance texts by Stefanie Knobel, which are juxtaposed with a series of pictures created for this volume – that of a geochemical earth conditioned by colonial excesses, one that begins to speak to a world that cuts through geological materialities along coloured lines. An omnipresent technological surveillance tool has eyes without eyelids and looks at the viewer without interruption. Rendered in rhythms and in twelve manifestations for the quasi-public, words and images are woven into a new fabulation: a performance as a book.
On this evening, Stefanie Knobel engages in a conversation with curator María Montero Sierra and her research project and eponymous publication Fishing Fly. While the many voices in Writing the body with the body speak through, with and as the earth and of what profitable human behavior does and has done to it, the many voices in Fishing Fly pose the question of how we get our hands back in the water. This also connects to Stefanie Knobel and Samrat Banerjee's current production, which premieres at the Gessnerallee in January 2022.
The Book Launch will be accompanied by a DJ set by Franziska Koch.
The two-volume edition Writing the body with the body / Writing the body with the body - essays, texts and performances with essays by Samrat Banerjee, Najrin Islam and Ines Kleesattel will be published as volume 9 in the series Primeur of the Aargauer Kuratorium by Edition Fink, 2020.
The series Fishing Fly with texts by Amanda Choo Quan and Alexis Pauline Gumbs is edited by María Montero Sierra and published by TBA21–Academy.
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