concept and dance: Mariella Greil
dance: Emily Sweeney
live electronics: Werner Moebius
cello, voice, analogue electronics: Audrey Chen.
In the performance either or or and,[1] I investigated the gravity of the conjunctive words or, either, and. The laying bare of encountering a defaced other comes in continuous modifications. We explored the conjunctive tissue of vibrations passed between sound and movement, between baring and concealing, activating revelations amidst the noise of encountering. We worked along with Gerald Raunig’s statement that ‘In the new mode of modulation, you never stop beginning’.[2]
[1] The work either or or and was performed at Akzent Theatre in Vienna in a shared gala evening with other participating artists Rose Breuss, Andrea Bold, Max Nagl, Frans Poelstra, Chris Haring, Hilde Kappes, and Tanja Simma on October 5, 2009. For video documentation see: http://www.emilysweeney.net/eitherororand.html.
[2] In German original: ‘Im neuen Modus der Modulation hört man nie auf anzufangen.’ See Gerald Raunig, In Modulation Mode: Factories of Knowledge, (Trans.) Aileen Derieg, 2009, http://eipcp.net/transversal/0809/raunig/en [accessed September 20, 2009].
Mariella Greil 