ZORKA WOLLNY
Impossible Opera
2017
Vídeo
23'31"
Coleção da artista
Drawing upon the idioms of theatrical performance, music composition, and free improvisation, Polish artist Zorka Wollny creates performances that evoke the spirit of Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed and its ethos of the rehearsal for a social revolution. In her interdisciplinary works, bodies and voices are mobilized and exercised as the primary tools that serve to structure and shape debate in the public sphere. Working with professional musicians, dancers, actors, and community members, Wollny has staged performances in museums, factories, abandoned buildings, and neighborhood streets. Impossible Opera was originally realized as a forty-minute performance in Oldenburg, Germany, in collaboration with the composer Anna Szwajgier (b. 1979). Combining elements of a drill routine and mostly nonverbal sounds, from heavy breathing, through murmurs, to whistles, which coalesce into the chant This is what democracy looks like, it attests to the enduring importance of finding one’s voice in the search for common good.
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