The fragility of (in)significant things is a long-term research project that proposes to generate a space where choreographic practice is the way to investigate questions about bodies in relation to residuality. How do we understand waste and what is the impact of this understanding in our bodies? From which position are we talking about something as waste/wasted? And how can an artistic practice unveil the potential of engaging with that which is supposed to be discarded and made disappear? What is the affect of the remains?

Through a series of choreographic and performative studies, this project focuses on the relation between bodies and things in the context of diminishing planetary resources.

#2 The Throw Dance

The throw dance departs from the concepts of waste and wasting and intends to explore them within the movement of insubordinate forces and uncontrolled spending. In a shared embodiment of energy, three dancers invest on ideas of the unusable and the unrecoverable focusing on the production of residual movements. In times of ecological catastrophe due to abundance of material garbage and diminishing resources, can we allow ourselves to waste that which cannot be recuperated or should we limit our actions to preservation? 

#4 Cosas rotas

Dear lotterist,

In order to carry out our meeting,
I need to ask you to find something broken that you have lying around
and bring it with you
if you have several, even better
it can be anything
but it is essential to have at least one thing

see you soon,
Barbara


Address: Parque Centenario, from the intersection of Av. Patricias Argentinas and Eduardo Acevedo, passing by the right side of the Skate Park, entering the Park (past the fence), there is a huge tree right in front of the water.

#6 An empathy towards things

During the artist residency at Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, Ana Laura and Bárbara engage with notions and practices of restoration, maintenance, and preservation in Japanese rituals and routines, and explore the potential of the processes of repair within their own choreographic practice. The starting point will be a study of the Kintsugi technique of ceramic repair in which broken parts of an object are reassembled to breathe new life into the remains.

Collaboration Urushi artist Mio Heki
Photo courtesy of Mio Heki

2022

The fragility of (in)significant things is a long-term research project that proposes to generate a space where choreographic practice is the way to investigate questions about bodies in relation to residuality. How do we understand waste and what is the impact of this understanding in our bodies? From which position are we talking about something as waste/wasted? And how can an artistic practice unveil the potential of engaging with that which is supposed to be discarded and made disappear? What is the affect of the remains?

Through a series of choreographic and performative studies, this project focuses on the relation between bodies and things in the context of diminishing planetary resources.

#2 The Throw Dance

The throw dance departs from the concepts of waste and wasting and intends to explore them within the movement of insubordinate forces and uncontrolled spending. In a shared embodiment of energy, three dancers invest on ideas of the unusable and the unrecoverable focusing on the production of residual movements. In times of ecological catastrophe due to abundance of material garbage and diminishing resources, can we allow ourselves to waste that which cannot be recuperated or should we limit our actions to preservation? 

By Ana Laura Lozza & Bárbara Hang
Performers Camila Malenchini, Ton Bogataj, Ana Laura Lozza
Live music Christopher Ramm
Photos Daniel Domolky
Duration 15 minutes

A production of Acá No Hay Delivery. With support from Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Garage Berlin.

2018

#4 Cosas rotas

Dear lotterist,

In order to carry out our meeting,
I need to ask you to find something broken that you have lying around
and bring it with you
if you have several, even better
it can be anything
but it is essential to have at least one thing

see you soon,
Barbara


Address: Parque Centenario, from the intersection of Av. Patricias Argentinas and Eduardo Acevedo, passing by the right side of the Skate Park, entering the Park (past the fence), there is a huge tree right in front of the water.

Meeting point: under the tree
Time: 15:30 hs.

This performance was part of Lotería de Performance Buenos Aires by Club Galería de Performance Art.
Photos Bárbara Hang

2021

#6 An empathy towards things

During the artist residency at Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, Ana Laura and Bárbara engage with notions and practices of restoration, maintenance, and preservation in Japanese rituals and routines, and explore the potential of the processes of repair within their own choreographic practice. The starting point will be a study of the Kintsugi technique of ceramic repair in which broken parts of an object are reassembled to breathe new life into the remains.