The
project The Act Of Doing Makes It (Feel Like) Becoming (2019) consists of
a short film and a wearable sculpture collection that is being
embodied within a lecture performance. The work reflects on the
paradoxic characteristics of the individual, being both singular and
plural. The individual person is not merely a singular body, but
formed by a network of social components. Some of those components
are regulated by an organic swarm behaviour and others by the
artificial social constructs designed by the authorities to exercise
control. In The Act Of Doing Makes It (Feel Like) Becoming, the
performing bodies (performers and audience) reflect on the frame-work
of our freedom – a quest for balance between conjugation and
subjugation that resembles the urge for being Self in a pluralised
society.
Duration: 90 min.
Premiered at Bärenzwinger (2019)
Exhibited at Entkunstung (2019)
Supported by Kommunale Galerie Bärenzwinger (Bezirksamt Mitte Berlin).
Choreography / Costume / Art direction: Monika Dorniak | Performers:Marlon Miguel, Susanna Rydz, Tania Abanin, Léna Bagutti, Valentine Sinclair | Soundartist: Emiddio Vasquez | Photographer: Marlene Zoe Burz
Duration: 90 min.
Premiered at Bärenzwinger (2019)
Exhibited at Entkunstung (2019)
Supported by Kommunale Galerie Bärenzwinger (Bezirksamt Mitte Berlin).
Choreography / Costume / Art direction: Monika Dorniak | Performers:Marlon Miguel, Susanna Rydz, Tania Abanin, Léna Bagutti, Valentine Sinclair | Soundartist: Emiddio Vasquez | Photographer: Marlene Zoe Burz





Monika Dorniak – The Act Of Doing Makes It (Feel Like) Becoming (2019), Bärenzwinger, 2019, Photographer: Marlene Zoe Burz






Film stills from The Act Of Doing Makes It (Feel Like) Becoming (2019)
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