Olia Sosnovskay, “Citing sources”, performance
5 September 2024, 20:00
POP UP, MEMPHIS, ARCHIVE
The piece derives from artist's reflections on the materials she encountered in the National Library of Belarus, while studying the concept of a socialist celebration: books, texts, images. This story overlaps with her experience of the recent and ongoing anti-government protests in Belarus. The performance traces the relationship between the language and movement, event and document, affect, score and the political. Understanding score rather broadly, as any graphical or textual material describing and calling to action. It operates on multiple temporalities: the past of a movement’s trace, the future of the constantly imagined action, the present gesture of a reader.
Production Centrale Fies_art work space (IT) / Live Works. With the support and choreographic advice of Alix Eynaudi, Elizabeth Ward and Aleksei Borisionok. Supported by Huggy Bears Art Space and Tanzquartier Wien.
Free admission
Language: English
Duration: 35 minutes
Performance starts at 20:00
Olia Sosnovskaya is an artist, writer and cultural organizer (born in Minsk, based in Vienna). She works with text, performative and visual practices, addressing forms of political organizing, protest choreographies, movement scores and intersections of festivity and the political. Member of Work Hard! Play Hard! self-organized platform that intertwines the issues of work, leisure, non-institutional infrastructures and knowledges through participatory and discursive formats, and the artistic-research group Problem Collective focused on strikes, archives, reading practices and tools for engagement with overseen histories and social struggle.
Language: English
Duration: 35 minutes
Performance starts at 20:00
Olia Sosnovskaya is an artist, writer and cultural organizer (born in Minsk, based in Vienna). She works with text, performative and visual practices, addressing forms of political organizing, protest choreographies, movement scores and intersections of festivity and the political. Member of Work Hard! Play Hard! self-organized platform that intertwines the issues of work, leisure, non-institutional infrastructures and knowledges through participatory and discursive formats, and the artistic-research group Problem Collective focused on strikes, archives, reading practices and tools for engagement with overseen histories and social struggle.