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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

past

14.09.23 until 15.09.23 • performance
Poems and Other Emergencies as part of conference: "Readings on the poetics of measure", Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.
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
19.06.22 • performance
Poems and Other Emergencies at Poésie n'est pas un luxe, Littérature etc, BAGNOLET, FRANCE
12.03.22 • performance
Poems And Other Emergencies at KAAP, Brugges
15.01.22 • performance
Poems And Other Emergencies at QL2 Dance, ACT
04.12.21 • performance
Poems And Other Emergencies, Moving Words Festival, NO
21.08.21 • performance
Poems And Other Emergencies at Saal Biennale, Tallinn.
12.07.21 until 23.07.21 • residency
Poems And Other Emergencies, GC Kriekelaar, Bxl.
27.01.20 until 03.02.20 • performance
Premiere of Poems and Other Emergencies, Batard Festival, Brussels.
07.12.19 until 20.12.19 • residency
Poems and Other Emergencies, Lucy Guerin Inc. Melbourne, Australia.
18.11.19 until 23.11.19 • residency
Poems and Other Emergencies, Workspacebrussels, Belgium. 
28.10.19 until 03.11.19 • residency
Poems and Other Emergencies, Workspacebrussels, Belgium. 
19.08.19 • residency
Poems and Other Emergencies, Workspacebrussels, Belgium.
01.07.19 until 12.07.19 • residency
Poems and Other Emergencies, BUDA, Kortrijk.