Poems and Other Emergencies, Shadow Text, PUBLIC RELATIONS, APRIL (a performance), ...as if leaking, Forever in both Directions, This Container, Touch(ed), Soft Reality

Poems and Other Emergencies

Mouth agape. Tongue fingering the air. Like that. I waited. A body. In detail. Delay.

Poems and Other Emergencies sits at the intersection of poetry and choreography. Centered on a fictional character The Girl-with-her-tongue-out, the performance questions if it is through language that we find ourselves a body, or through the body that we find language? Embodied voices and voiced bodies weave and echo throughout the space. Where does the word end and her body begin?

Poems and Other Emergencies uses the apparatus of the theatre to coincide the female body and language, to produce a sensuously situated speech. The poem becomes an event and the performer's body emerges at the intersection of voices weaving a bodily and textual landscape. Using fragmentation and doubling in order to open an in-between, a space of contingency, for its narratives and subjects. 

The language of poetry speaks from the margins, from exile; it is reinvented each time it is heard. It is a language of withdrawal, divergence and differentiation. The poem sings out to the other without knowing what that other is. It is subjectivity in the making; through its echoes, the poem overflows its writer. Poems and Other Emergencies positions the performer as a radical historicist, inscribing herself and the event, writing of this time with body and text.

 

Performance and Choreography: Chloe Chignell
Conversation partner: Adriano Wilfert Jensen
Technician: Sven Dehens
Thanks: Sven Dehens, Bojana Cvejic, Stefan Goovart, Deborah Birch and a.pass. 

Supported By: BUDA Kortrijk, VGC, Workspacebrussels, La Balsamine, Lucy Guerin Inc, Dancehouse Melbourne and Batard Festival Brussels.

 

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION

recent

25.03.23 • performance
Showing of Shadow Text in the context of Oriana exhibition by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz.

less recent, still present

06.02.23 until 03.03.23 • teaching
Teaching Movement Class - MA and BA Students at ISAC
14.01.23 until 15.01.23 • performance
Performing Romanticised and Heatsink by Angela Goh at MCA, Sydney

past

07.12.22 until 10.12.22 • teaching
Reading and Writing Seminar for BA and MA Students at ISAC
05.12.22 until 17.12.22 • residency
Shadow Text at BUDA Kortrijk
17.09.22 • performance
Poems and Other Emergencies at Wiels Art Book Fair
24.08.22 • performance
Poems and Other Emergencies at PAF Summer University, FRANCE
08.08.22 until 19.08.22 • teaching
Teaching at P.A.R.T.S Summer School, Bruxelles, BELGIUM
19.06.22 • performance
Poems and Other Emergencies at Poésie n'est pas un luxe, Littérature etc, BAGNOLET, FRANCE
19.05.22 • teaching
Lecture "Language as Prosthesis" for the MA students in Choreography at VCA, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
28.04.22 • performance
In Other Words by Ingrid Berger Myhre, CC Ter Vesten Beveren, BELGIUM
01.04.22 until 30.06.22 • residency
Research residency, Cite Des Arts, Paris.
30.03.22 • performance
In Other Words by Ingrid Berger Myhre, BUDA, Kortrijk
17.03.22 until 18.03.22 • performance
In Other Words by Ingrid Berger Myhre, KAAP, Brugges
15.03.22 • performance
APRIL (a performance), KAAP, Brugges
12.03.22 • performance
Poems And Other Emergencies at KAAP, Brugges
07.02.22 until 19.02.22 • residency
The Shadow Text, WorkspaceBrussels, BE
04.02.22 • reading
Launch of Le Chauffage Issue 02, rile*, Bruxelles
31.01.22 until 07.02.22 • residency
The Shadow Text, BUDA, Kortrijk
26.01.22 until 27.01.22 • performance
In Other Words by Ingrid Berger Myhre, Black Box Theater, Oslo
15.01.22 • performance
Poems And Other Emergencies at QL2 Dance, ACT
14.01.22 • publication
Essay written in conversation with photographs by Maya Beaudry published in: Le Chauffage