Private and Ideological Sewing Grounds

Experimental performance for four channels, sewing machine and voice. 

LOOS X Zaal3 presented: "We Are Transforming Worlds" - the first The Hague International Sound Art Festival 2023 on November 2 and 3, 2023


Sewing, digging, ironing, digging, washing, digging, swiping, probiv. Where is it sewn, the barrier between private and ideological time, we are nostalgic for? What burden experienced time stitched to us?

This performance is an ongoing exploration of everyday objects filling the memory of non-occurrence. Objects, create points of contact between domestic and sacred rituals among people who lived under authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe. The continuation in its form focuses on the sewing machine as a tool for translation and mediation bringing the domestic in a new context. It translates suppressed inner worlds by sound mapping of a repetitive, durational process of piercing a fabric and recreating the way the soil is pierced and sewn in search of oil. The performance is originally lasting 4 hours and set in a time capsule, aiming to replicate a static moment in time of horror and misplacement. 

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