Non-western, Who owns the story, War on stage, Work-in-progress
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SPRING 2024
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In this work in progress, Melkonyan combines her experience as an artist and as a microbiologist to explore the connections and collisions between the biological and cultural contexts of blood. In her performative installation, strange visions expand and leak out of the sterile vessels of a science lab, breaching the boundaries of what can be routinely contained.
In this solo story-telling performance Ira Melkonyan explores the mysticisms and fantastical qualities attributed to blood. Blood Thirsty is an investigation into the way the story of blood relates relates to political borders and the human sense of connectedness.
What is blood? How does it perform? Who gets to frame it and to assign meaning to it? What are its social and political connotations? What does our understanding of blood say about our times? And how can the the substance’s agency be re-imagined from a transnational feminist perspective?
Ira Melkonyan is taking part in the Topic Talk War on stage on May 24 from 17 tot 18:30 in the Stadsschouwburg in Utrecht.
"Ira Melkonyan and The Rubberbodies Collective give presence to the effects of non-humans, challenging the distribution of authorship in the theatre field...The female gaze opens a new perspective on not only the liquid processes that take place around us, but also on how we address them"
The world renowned Flemish collective invites us to experiment with the way we perceive reality. Bringing scientific methods to the stage, they recruit their audience to investigate if we all perceive unity of space and time in the same way. Does an objective mode exist?
Marta Górnicka returns to SPRING! She is bringing a choir of 21 women of different ages, backgrounds and professions. In a powerful testimony of the realities of war, each of them tells her own story of how war has changed her life, while collectively they try to find a way to overcome the horror.
