Second love II by Vera Sofia Mota & Kristoffer Stöm
HAU-Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
23 February 2014 at 17:00
According to Zeno – attempting to prove that movement is an illusion – it is impossible to traverse an infinite number of points in a finite time. The tortoise starting slightly ahead of Achilles [Read More] can never be overtaken, because Achilles would have to run an infinite amount of (constantly diminishing) distances. Variants of these problems have appeared in the history of science and philosophy, famously in Newton and Liebniz independent discovery of differential calculus. Thus putting the relation between movement and position on its feet. “Position is movement residue”, as Brian Massumi eloquently puts it. In order to extract images from the always already moving bodies, and have them appear on the retinas of each other, we use a stroboscope. To amplify the rhythm suggested and produced by the resulting sequence of images, we connect a sound to the light in both random and predetermined ways.
Interaction between sequence and irregularity, repetition and stuttering of the apparatus, passing between bodies in a
game of contamination and reading – writing/rewriting – within its rhythm and breaks.
Vera Sofia Mota & Kristoffer Ström
Credits
Creation, Performance: Vera Sofia Mota, Kristoffer Ström
Duration: 20m
Electronics: Kristoffer Ström
Light, Sound: Vera Sofia Mota, Kristoffer Ström
Costumes: Ivania Sofia Caeiro
Music: Nik Bärtsch`s Ronin, STOA, Modul 35
Residency: Tatwerk Berlin, Altes Finanzamt
Support: Tatwerk Berlin/MPA, Hau Hebbel am Ufer 3
Year: 2014
Acknowledgments: Ana Rita Manuel, Ivania Sofia Caeiro, Mike Stellar,
The History of Colour TV, Laurent Kappler, Marc Carrera, Isabel Simoes,
Fransien van der Putt, Jan Berkel, Fabien Artal, Paulo Chinatown Matosinhos
