Feminalz, Kolektiv: Image Snatchers [Take 2015, #1]

Feminalz, Kolektiv: Image Snatchers [Take 2015, #1]

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Title Image Snatchers [Take 2015, #1]
Type Theatre, Performance, Dance, Burlesque / Cabaret / Varieté, Dance performance, Contemporary dance
Date 15 October 2015
Venue Klub Gromka – AKC Metelkova mesto
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Emanat
Co-production City of Women
Language Slovene, English, French, Portuguese
Format 1920x1080 pxl
Duration 00' 56"
URL http://www.emanat.si/si/produkcija/tatovi-podob
Registration number -2015-GLED-9
Number of works in a group 3

Synopsis

For years, the City of Women Festival and Emanat have successfully collaborated in the organisation of various workshops, and one of more notable has to do with the genre of burlesque and cabaret. The first such workshop in 2011 was conducted by Marisa Carnesky, in 2014 they hosted Ursula Martinez; in 2015 this precious collection of performers was joined by Moira Finucane, another queen of provocation and a “national treasure” of Australia.

Technoburlesque at Klub Gromka entertained the guests on the last night of the Festival by Image Snatchers (Feminalz) and the participants of a five-day workshop The Art of Provocation conducted by Moira Finucane. The event was followed by a DJ programme by Feminalz.

A mute comedy of the body, technoburlesque mocks rigid social roles. It appropriates, copies and sticks together femininity, masculinity, family relations, machismo and other degenerated social roles falsely considered to be normative. When Image Snatchers totally expose themselves – and shake off their social dresses layer-by-layer – they don’t get to the point but rather realize that nothingness is the point whilst the performed travesties of the body are the opium that makes living bearable. This amusing game in cross-dressing and their behaviour can be attributed to the great emancipation of sexuality and bodies of individuals from social bonds. Satisfied in the eclectic noise of media images, they stretch popular snapshots and chew them into forms never seen before that provokes bursts of laughter or despair. Image Snatchers aren’t after meaning but pleasure. Pleasure is the hedonistic polish they have smeared everyday objects with and turned them into something exceptional. Technoburlesque is an intersection of (program/cybernetic) code and subjectivity; a laying bare of the physical and emotional body indivisibly bound up with the information matrix of contemporaneity. (Ida Hiršenfelder)

Source: City of Women

Sodelujejo

Costume design URŠA RECER
Composition Luka Prinčič
Production Sabina Potočki
Light design Betty Siemers
Text by Frau Strapatz

Artist, artistic group

Events

Feminalz Kolektiv, Image Snatchers [Take 2014], Ljubljana, 11 October 2014, 02' 40"
Feminalz Kolektiv, Image Snatchers [Take 2015, #1], Ljubljana, 15 October 2015, 00' 56"
Feminalz Kolektiv, Image Snatchers [Take 2015, #2], Ljubljana, 15 October 2015, 00' 50"

Production

Co-production

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