Channa Boon: november 2015

zaterdag 28 november 2015

La Pizia e la Marangona

Lecture performance.
An unsuspected visitor provides a completely different take on the lecture a professor is giving. Time becomes more relative than the lecturer ever imagined to argument.
S.a.L.E. DOCKS Venice, Magazinni del Sale, 56th Venice Biennale 2015
composition: Arnold Marinissen
lecturer: Alberto Peratoner
singer: Juliane Dennert
concept, direction, libretto: Channa Boon
total duration: 45':00"
With special thanks to Fondazione Cini Onlus Venice and S.a.L.E. Docks, Magazzini del Sale, Venice.

Karen Barad

Trained as a painter, Boon produces films, installations, drawings, performances and objects that can function together as one work or exist as solitary pieces. While Boon engages with the body, space, the landscape, sound and communities in intuitive and cross-sectional ways, her writing and research functions as a reservoir of knowledge and direction within this practice. Her research is based on a trans-disciplinary practice, connecting the different fields of (embodied) knowledge with each other. The source image and material in the work consists of the zooming – in to a story, a history or a phenomenon at the one hand and the connection of this with the physical, the body and the now on the other. This ‘physical’, ‘body’ or ‘now’ is very much akin to the so called ‘thick present’ in the work of philosopher Karen Barad; an ongoing now-ness that is connected on a deep and complex level within the tissue of existence. For Boon this thick present is a tangible and a possible translation of a phenomenon that she calls the ‘Acoustic Body’; a heightened perception and experience of the human body, the landscape, space and the object, and thereby the perception that these are all carriers of energy and exchange and connect with each other on a subtle level. Boon uses the word acoustic because she registers this exchange on a sub-acoustic level; you could also call it vibration. Boon gives shape and highlights this 'sound' or sub-acoustic experience through her work.

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zaterdag 28 november 2015

La Pizia e la Marangona