mut
The durational performance installation mut by choreographer jee chan and visual artist stefan pente deals with the porosity and changeability of collective memories.
It premiered at Tanzfabrik Berlin, the project’s cooperation partner, on November 19, 2022 as part of Archivkompliz*innen – Tanzarchive in Bewegung.
The starting point for chan and pente’s work mut was conversations with Evelina Pente on various elements of jee chan’s work Harbor, of which she had experienced the work-in-progress version in the fall of 2021. While watching footage of jee’s grandmother talking about her memories, Evelina Pente was reminded of images and episodes from her own past and could recontextualize them. In mut, Evelina shares with us stories of her escape from the war as a young child, and these are in turn transferred to our own imaginations, refracted through the lens of our own experiences.
Fragmentary and dissonant, these landscapes of memory take shapelike composite maps mapping meandering topographies of life and death in a pointless world. mut finds its form in an installative space in which the fluid and cyclical nature of memory is manifested.
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