Cie.tauschfühlung: unflächig | K. Cyan, M. Mustra, S. Hawy, A. Iqbal

WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT CARE

The project takes its starting point from the work on reproduction and the

unequal payment for women’s labor: Women earn less for the same amount of

work and on top of that, they have to care for the reproduction and related needs

for free. That means they have to withstand a permanent overload and are

exposed to balancing an impossible weight of different challenges at the same time.

No need to say that this unequal treatment and the disbalances are increasing

continuously and affect a majority of the people worldwide.

The project takes this impossibility and the ways to stand or hold out the manifold

of challenges into account, by working with women from different social and

economic backgrounds–inviting them to perform a way of balancing objects that

are not only abstractly representing the variety of weights and burdens but

they are as well built in a way that makes it even more difficult to keep them up.

The everyday of women and their permanent overcharge without appropriate

charges will be transformed into a form of body language and performance that

will be taped by video.

The video will be presented next to the objects that the women tried to balance, a

kind of sculptural witnesses and representatives of the manifold of burdens

that woman are confronted with. For me the architectural motif of

caryatides–figures of women as columns carrying the architecture on their

heads–are perfect metaphors for carrying unbearable weights. As well ancient

and contemporary ways of cultural habits like women carrying loads on their

heads represent the continuity of the burdens that society loads onto the shoulders

and minds of women, permanently exposed to losing balance and to

collapse.

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unflächig

"Unflächig ist die Suche nach Nicht-Formen.

Eine Einladung zum spielerischen Sein im Hier und Jetzt - multidimensional und oftmals zwischen den gesellschaftlichen Normen, den abgemachten Strukturen, Definitionen und außerhalb der berechenbaren Flächen. Einfach mal unflächig sein.

Das Stück beschäftigt sich mit der Kommunikation zwischen 2 Tänzer*innen und elektronischem Sounddesign, sowie mit der Verbindung von Tanz und Akrobatik.

Eine Produktion von Cie.tauschfühlung / Bianca Anne Braunesberger