YES YES, 2028
Video YES YES, HD-Video, 10:46 min.
Concept: Nicole Wendel
Performer: Audrey Rose Burden und Nicole Wendel
Camera/Editing: Oliver Stritzke
Berlin
In the performance YES_YES, Audrey Rose Burden (dancer) and Nicole Wendel (performer and visual artist) meet on a black panel (80 x 100cm). They embark on a sculptural, performative search for harmonious positioning in relation to each other, thus making the intensity of decisions visible in a physical dialogue.
How do we respond to the communicative impulses of our counterpart? When do we agree? When do we not? What opportunities do we open up ourselves? How are relationship, trust, relation, distance, closeness and connection generated?
Depending on the quality and perception of the moment, a joint interplay of bodies and their relationships to each other arises on the limited space. Micro-movements are used to create a lively relationship with one another. If a positioning is declared coherent with YES, both performers draw the outlines of their connections with chalk on the blackboard. As they continue to act on the field, an overlapping drawing emerges, like various crime scene markings. What remains is a kind of abstract afterimage of the physical forms of encounter; a reference to the spatial kinetics of the bodies in dialogue.