- Installation
- World premiere
Motus Mori PERPETUUM
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An immersive installation. Since 2021, SPRING has been presenting Katja Heitmann’s Motus Mori archive, a long-term project dedicated to collecting and preserving human movement. For the first time, you come face-to-face with the archive’s ‘bewegingsdonoren’—people like you and me, each with a unique body and physical presence. Be moved by their touching stories and the essence of their motion.
Motus Mori is an ongoing artistic project by choreographer Katja Heitmann, which has been collecting and preserving ‘human movement’ since 2019. This unique archive explores the fragility of the human body and the impossibility of truly capturing movement. The project aims to create a monument of movement, honoring the individuality and significance of every physical expression. More than 2,000 people have already donated their personal movements to this archive, allowing these expressions to live on in future artworks.
PERPETUUM is a new immersive and moving video installation that brings these ‘movement donors’ to life. Different people from the Motus Mori archive are made visible on a monumental scale. As you get closer, you stand face to face with them and hear the stories behind their movements. In a sea of light, your personal movement also becomes visible.
Katja Heitmann is fascinated by humankind’s continuous attempts to make itself immortal. This is why, since 2019, she has been collecting personal movements to preserve them for the future. Based on this Motus Mori archive of movement, she creates new artworks each time, which make you pause and reflect on what moves us as humans.
The SPRING program also features Lectio, another chapter of the Motus Mori project, presented alongside PERPETUUM. In this lecture-performance, Katja reflects on the ongoing exploration of human movement and the creation of a ‘monument’ of movement.
Ongoing, stay as long as you like.
"Heitmann has a mission! Undeniably so. In Motus Mori, she gives the body back to a society that is in danger of losing sight of its value. Art could not be more urgent. But besides urgent, Reliquiem is also very moving. After all, the body is impermanent and confronts us with finality."
“In Museum Motus Mori, she collects, describes, archives and exhibits the minute movements we all make every day that immediately disappear again - the beauty and fragility of dance in one thoughtful concept.”
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Katja Heitmann
Credits
Concept, artistic creation: Katja Heitmann
Concept, music, creative producer: Sander van der Schaaf
Production: This is not a show foundation
Interviews: Anton van der Sluis, Eleni Ploumi, Maria Mora Navarro
Editing assistant: Maria Mora Navarro
Video performers in the installation: Stijn, Ton and Marieke, Marijn, Joost, Yda, Jos, Sandra, Doedt, Maartje, Svea and Efía, Ruud, Feicko, Mendel, Willem, Sanoune, Mark, Selma, Frans
Programming advice: Vincent Vriens/ Beeldjutters
Set design: Edwin Daemen
Realization technical material: Corne van de Schoor
Creation supported by: Performing Arts Fund, Municipality of Tilburg, Province of North Brabant
Co-production partners: Media Art Festival, SPRING
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