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approaching myself as a stranger
To investigate what she can change in her own thinking by approaching and trying out alien knowledge.

 

Performance: Sabina Holzer
Space: Jack Hauser
Advise: Elke Krasny

Production: cattravelsnotalone

With kind support: Wien Kultur, ttpWUK, d.id/Dance Identity, Toxic Dreams, im_Flieger


Photo: Jack Hauser; WUK / Projektraum

UPCOMING: 10.DECEMBER 2011, 17H
SCORES No 4, TQW / Studios


Premiere: April 2011, WUK / Projektspace

APPROACHING MYSELF AS A STRANGER

Approaching myself as a stranger is an attempt at alien knowledge, a quest for the ability to change one’s one way of thinking. Or:
a plan to approximate the life/ experience of women from the Arab countries. an exploriation of the city of Vienna by visting Arab, muslim institutions and associations. a soliloquy with Arab feminist literature & theory. an entanglement of familiar, unfamiliar, ancient and current matters. a collage of deliberations and invocations (because nothing else works).

In the texture of different voices and symbols, religious and political matters, things told and things imagined developed by Sabina Holzer, the distance to the Other, failure to understand becomes its potential. A possibility to follow the momentary logic of poetry and to subvert premature images and definitions of alienness – directly and personally yet keeping distance.

WITH BEST THANKS for discussions, exchange and inspiration to Deniz Aygün, Sabile Rasiti, Roswitha Irran, Rachid Boutayeb, Franziska Tillmann, Frédéric Gies.

Used texts sources of: Kathy Acker, Miral al Tahawi, Christina von Braun, Assia Djebar, Jean Luc Nancy.

Press: BEGEGNUNGEN MIT DEM UNSICHTBAREN von Heidi Wilm