Anita Wach: Balance
Durational performance and video work Physis
Duration: 3 hours
6th Movement: “I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowers over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.’” Friedrich Nietzsche
The world oscillates between knowledge and ignorance, rationality and emotion, nature and technology, past and future. Maintaining balance is constant, hard work. Everyday we balance between fear and hope, facts and dreams, safety and freedom. We live inside a paradox. The more we know, the less we understand. The more information we gain, the less stable we are. The less we see, the better we feel. It’s all confusing. In order to find equilibrium, Anita will spend a few hours standing on a pile of books, balancing between instinct and reason. Millions of thoughts, words, numbers, diagrams, equations will serve as a plinth under feet of the body filled with cartilages, bones, tissues, veins, arterias, liquids and organs. She will become a living anatomy model of an intelligent mammal dealing with the instability of the civilized world.
Performance: Anita Wach
Video by Anita Wach & Bojan Jablanovec Music by Eduardo Raon / Additional music: Dooley Wilson, As Time Goes By / Commissioned by Bündnis internationaler Produktionshäuser, Germany / Produced by Via Negativa, 2020
Balance is a part of a project 30 movements, which consists of 30 autonomous performative events executed in various venues in front of an audience.Within 30 movements Anita pushes the boundaries of imagination and engages mind and body in dialogue with the harsh reality of everyday life and current politics. The range of performative strategies is wide: from intimate, solo appearances, to happenings engaging more people, from purely physical actions to verbal monologues, from abstract forms to interactive initiatives. The collection of raw images, insights, impulses, and actions are also a part of a continuous creative madness of VN Laboratory for performance art, where the author tries and develops ideas. Following the need for democratization of the creative process, Anita takes the role of author, performer but also a curator who occasionally gives the stage to invited artists. She decided to invade the public sphere in order to find a place for weakness, despair, ordinary joy and basic human confusion, to let it move through the horizon of public visibility. Material and motives from 30 movements will become a foundation for future performance planned for spring 2023.
Author of individual Movements, performer and curator: Anita Wach
Author of concept and artistic direction: Bojan Jablanovec
Executive producer and public relations: Sara Horžen
Producer: Špela Trošt
Production: Via Negativa
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and City of Ljubljana
