Bodies and Barriers

Bodies & Barriers’ performance series uses playful means to reveal the perception of authority and its power structures. In different settings in public and closed spaces, the audience is brought into a situational, immersive experimental arrangement. The troupe’s strategy is only apparent over an extended period of time. Fictitious authoritarian structures are slowly imposed on the “test subjects” in an intentionally incomprehensible experiment. Bodies & Barriers uses non-violent methods that create a sense of exclusion and limitation, irritation and restriction of freedom. They expose structural systems of power and their inherent methods of repression. How willingly are these creeping curtailments accepted? How deep does the conditioning of regulations to which we are permanently exposed go? And how do individuals react in a collective dynamic?
performances: “HISCOX” and “Index”, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2014, “Psychomaterialism”, Künstler-häuser Worpswede, 2014 “Operation Application” Genscher Gallery, 2014 “Swing by” Poolhaus Exhibition, Hamburg 2015 “Add Art” Privatbank Berenberg, Hamburg 2015 “Soft Core” Gallery Conradi, Hamburg 2016 Rathausmarkt Hamburg, “Festival for Feminism and Public Space,” 2016

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Credits
Art Direction: Alice Peragine
Performers: Alice Peragine, Jeff Wallner, Gloria Höckner, Fabio Cirillio, Judith Achner, Marc Carrera, Lion Tommy, Fion Pellacini
Costume: Nina Divitschek
Photography: Helge Mundt
Video: Jonas Fischer