Critical Studies
Johanna Ekenhorst+
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Johanna Ekenhorst—Gesturing together, failing together, and
Butcher's Tears
Karperweg 45
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Get directionsFri 10.06.2022
6pm — 6:30pm
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Johanna Ekenhorst—Gesturing together, failing together, and
Butcher's Tears
Karperweg 45
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Get directionsSat 11.06.2022
8pm — 8:30pm
I work between facilitation, writing and performance. Since 2017, I am part of the queer feminist art space District * School Without Center in Berlin and the Fuchsbau festival collective. At the moment, I live in Amsterdam.
MFA in Critical Studies, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, 2022
BAs in Art History and English Cultural Studies, Leipzig University, 2017
When every path resembles every other, it’s easy to lose one’s way. In "Gesturing together, failing together, and", a group of performers navigates through labyrinths of legal language. Gestural conducting and choral improvisation act as navigation instruments. Each of the performers is bringing their own associations, situated histories and meanings. Shadowing, echoing and overwriting each other’s interpretations, agreements are (un)bound, and bodily and collective languages form alongside fixed protocols. This performance is a result of Johanna Ekenhorst’s interest in gestures of power and their individual, social and political implications.