THE INTIMACY OF OTHERNESS (2023-)
"Ultimately, there is no other. The other is part of us and I will engulf it fully and tenderly."
"The Intimacy of Otherness" is a durational transmedia multisensory performance lecture in progress about radical self-healing from Multiple Sclerosis (2012-19) through guerrilla art interventions, dances of urgency and different bliss-inducing techniques. These practices included clubbing, (self-)hypnosis and erotic expression.
In the first act of the work (Act 1: Composting in the more-than-human world. Finding stillness on the refuge tree) , the artist shares their lived experience while laying in stillness on a suspended tree trunk. By re-enacting indoor, for the very first time, their remarkable performance "Be-coming Tree", the artist embodies and unveil some of the qualities that need to be acquired in order to turn the seemingly "impossible" (healing etc.) into an “I'm possible” reality.
CREDITS
A project by and with Jatun Risba.
Photo: Oskar Helcel
Video editing: Franco G. Livera
With thanks to Anna Chrtková, Petr Dlouhý and Divadlo X10.