Avhandling / Av_handling (Dissertation / Through_action)

Saturday May 10 2014

08:00pm–09:15pm

After, Rehearsal After (2013) is an attempt to narrate the artist’s prolonged dialog with the work of the French-Italian artist Gina Pane, through the digital and physical compilation of matter and gestures. In this lecture-performance, Arnell unfolds the multiplicity of her research and interactions with Pane’s work, which have been materializing throughout the past four years. The lecture-performance conveys layers of documentation, diary entries, storytelling, and re-performance. Included in the performance is a text written by Malin Arnell.

Here I am—Now—And then
In front of you
Within History

Over time—In time—Right here

Colliding
In love—By love and uncertainties

With documentations
Others and mine
Ours
Together
In Difference

Action—Enacted—Re-enacted—Later rehearsed.

(This is what I desire.)

We ask: Is your body mine?

She said: “this is a mobilization of aesthetics against anesthesia”

”I am the others”

Included in the performance are three video pieces:

Gina Pane, Discours mou et mat (1975), video, 22:32 min. (DVD, 4:3, sound, b/w). Unknown cinematographer and editor. All rights reserved ©LIMA (Discours mou et mat will be screened without sound.)

Malin Arnell, Reflect Soft Matte Discourse (2011), video, 22:43 min. (DVD, 16:9, sound, color). Performed by Malin Arnell and Clara López Menéndez at Kamarad in Stockholm on May 24th, 2011. Duration, 58 minutes. Videographer: Ulrika Gomm, Editor: Malin Arnell

Malin Arnell, Letter from Clara López Menéndez (2013), video, 8:03 min. (DVD, 16:9, sound, b/w). Text written and read aloud by Clara López Menéndez. Editor: Malin Arnell

After, Rehearsal After (2013) was first performed as a praxis session at the conference PSi19: Now Then: Performance and Temporality!, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. In 2014 After, Rehearsal After #2 (2014) was part of the program Cheat Out to the Audience: Risk x Reward, organized by Jake Yuzna for The Theater at MAD, Museum of Arts and Design at MAD, Museum of Arts and Design, NY. Later the same year After, Rehearsal After #3 (2014) was presented during 67,3% performative research seminar (2014) at Weld, Stockholm. After, Rehearsal After #4 (2016) was performed during Avhandling / Av_handling (Dissertation / Through_action) (2016), KTH R1 Experimental Performance Space, Stockholm.