JOHANNA BRUCKNER: REBEL BODIES – THE EDNA POE CLUB (2015, work in progress)
During the left-wing dance realism of the 1930s a number of dance groups – especially in New York, but also in Europe – assembled under the umbrella artist organization Workers Dance League articulating their demands on (work place) equality and social justice through dance scores. Dance was conceived of a mechanism to form a political subject on the basis of suffering and pain, and choreography became a language to organize and affirm a collective subject based on shared aesthetic experience.
In «Rebel Bodies – The Edna Poe Club» the artist Johanna Bruckner continues her long term research on the organization of a collective body. Episode One of her ongoing video installation is the result of a pedagogy of dismissal, in which a few performers from a school of contemporary dance in Hamburg investigate the historical legacies of the Workers Dance League that is being re-articulated in a collectively written script of scores. Staged at the Hafencity in Hamburg in 2015, an emerging centre of capital in the city, Bruckner examines the organization of a social body in the age of (and in reference to) post-financial crisis.
exhibition / Ausstellungsrealisation:
Johanna Bruckner, artist / Künstlerin and Anke Hoffmann, curator / Kuratorin
opening / Eröffnung: 9. Oktober 2015, ab 19 Uhr mit Apéro
Thu/Do, 29. October: Choreography of Resistance, Screening & Talk
(soon more information)
opening times / Öffnungszeiten: Saturday 2 – 7 pm / jeweils Samstag 14 – 19 Uhr (und nach Vereinbarung: info@station21.ch)
© Johanna Bruckner: Rebel Bodies – The Edna Poe Club, 2015 (video installation, video still)
