Thursday, 15.07.2021
Working with “SICK WOMAN THEORY” by Johanna Hedva

“[…] There was a Tumblr post that came across my dash during these weeks of protest, that said something to the effect of: “shout out to all the disabled people, sick people, people with PTSD, anxiety, etc., who can’t protest in the streets with us tonight. Your voices are heard and valued, and with us.

[…] In the Native American Cree language, the possessive noun and verb of a sentence are structured differently than in English. In Cree, one does not say, “I am sick.” Instead, one says, “The sickness has come to me.” I love that and want to honor it.
So, here is what has come to me:

[…]The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice community. A radical kinship, an interdependent sociality, a politics of care.“

_{Source: Johanna Hedva: Sick woman theory. Extract from lecture by Hedva, Johanna. “My Body Is a Prison of Pain so I Want to Leave It Like a Mystic But I Also Love It & Want It to Matter Politically.” Human Resources, Los Angeles, October 7, 2015. Source viewed at http://www.maskmagazine.com/not-again/struggle/sick-woman-theory (last viewed on 15.07.2021, 13:21).}

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Thoughts around the Sick Woman Theory

What ist the claim of „sickness“?

There is no division between wellnes and sickness OR „sickness“ is a mode aside the „well“?„Care“ implies… something that need to be cared for ?

Where do you START.. where do you STOP with treatment?

If care is profitable, is it still „caring“?

#Classism

If health and wellness is a collective concern, the sickness should be society’s concern too, rather than leaving it to the individual and being left alone.

Protest are accessible for abled-bodies.

Technology can provide solutions to integrate „invisible“ bodies to the protes VS. How can protests be radically different and inclusive?

Folk Dances

Physical Task: Creating each a „new“ folk dance

1)  Zoom dance

2)  Thunder dance

3)  Modest dance

4)  The dance of the 23rd century universe

And learning Ganggangsullae dance by observing the Jindo Ganggangsullae Preservation Society
_{Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29S5u59dY4k (last viewed at 15.07.2021, 18:55). Jindo Ganggangsullae Preservation Society at National Namdo Gugak Center, Jinakdang}. _{Planning/Production: Sang-Yeol Jeong (Director of the National Namdo Gugak Center), Planning: Jeong-Soo Kim (Director of Orchestra), Host: Ga-Ram Kim and Soon-Young Jeong, cinematography Arte TV (2010), video editing/design: Lagrange. Music composer of editorials and melodies: Kim Jong-shim}

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Friday, 16.07.2021

WARM UP : 1 hour-non-stop-dancing

Continueing with practicing GANGGANGSULLAE dance

Working on our self-created Folk Dances

1)Thunder: fixing the head and gaze. From the beginning, gaze looks over right shoulder to the right-neighbour, taking two steps back diagonal. And then head/gaze looks over left shoulder for the next two steps. This pattern keeps alternating.
The group follows in space a circular trajectory.
5 x repetition with speed up.

2) Modesty: Gaze to the front when bending first time to the left.
Chicken&cow part: 10 x knee-bounces→32 x right/left arm lifting up

Working on becoming an ANIMAL

Scenographic research: working with projection and textile
creating little zoos and aquariums in the room