STRESSTEST
Dates
05.07.2025 Perrrformat Festival Zurich (CH)
05.06.2025 Dock20 Museum for Contemporary Art Lustenau (AT)
30.05.2025 Showing: Loose Ends I, EXGIRLFRIEND GALLERY Berlin (DE)
Support
With the support of work and research grant Dock20 Museum Lustenau (AT), Perrrformat Zurich (CH), Druckwerk Lustenau (AT), S-MAK Lustenau (AT) and Culture Moves Europe.
Take your pants off before you fight (Dance Piece III – Yoko Ono)
Description
Collective democratic orders are under attack, the ecological crisis is at a tipping point, capitalist systems follow logics of exploitation and surveillance. We are in a constant STRESSTEST. The performative body makes the aspects of the environment in which we live visible. What does stress mean in the system? What power practices emerge in these landscapes of surveillance? How long do we remain 'functional' in these realities and when and where do the first weak points emerge? Where is the point of no return?
In the performance STRESSTEST Deva Schubert and Francesca Ferrari initiate a series of tests. Within these tests the duo resists the call to function, to invisibility, to silence. They experiment with different STRESS scores of surveillance in body, voice and the surrounding architecture by exposing these corpuses into tension, irregular, unpredictable rhythms, vibrations, numbness, collapse and dis-balance. Razor blades function as subversive devices to control the surrounding with their gaze. Stuck between their teeth they let flickering warning sounds appear.
Credits
Concept, Choreography, Performance: Francesca Ferrari & Deva Schubert
Metall Blades: Lukas Weithas
Links
Perrrformat
Find the interview here
Photo Credits
© Binta Kopp, Perrrformat, Photo: Binta Kopp
© DOCK 20, Deva Schubert, Francesca Ferrari, 2024 Photo: Miro Kuzmanovic