cleave festival 2021
The “Encyclopedia of Body Language” is a catalog of movements. Each movement is related to a piece of information. The body and its movements function as a mediator of information that is explicitly or implicitly archived in the body’s memory. In making the work different journalistic techniques were adapted to the performative context.
ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF BODY LANGUAGE
LENA HETZEL
8th July, 19:00 & 10th July, 16:35 (Route B)
George Wood Theatre
25 minutes
Lena Hetzel (*1992, Germany) art practice investigates constitutions of bodies. She uses performative methods that examine the link between bodily movements and social, societal and political information. She takes video as a documentation and research medium and works with interviews. She works in the performative context as a choreographer and movement researcher.