21 pornographies
Mette Ingvartsen
dates
Fri 13.03, 23:56
Fri 13.03, 23:56
location
DE SINGEL
duration
75 min.
Info
Our Western society is dominated by a hyper-sexualised visual culture and is entirely saturated with pornography. Promotional leaflets, TV adverts, posters on the street, … all use techniques from the porno industry. Starting from this observation, Mette Ingvartsen shows a collection of erotic and affective material.
Rather than concentrating on explicit sex, she confronts us with a number of characteristics of pornography: expressions of cruelty, clinical precision, violence and pain; but sometimes pleasure, arousal and sensation too. Through the intermingling of physical actions with narrative descriptions, a speculative choreography is created that both appeals to the spectator’s imagination and brings about intense physical sensations.
Credits
concept, choreography & performance Mette Ingvartsen | light design Minna Tiikkainen | sound design Peter Lenaerts | set Mette Ingvartsen & Minna Tiikkainen | dramaturgy Bojana Cvejic | technical director Hans Meijer | assistant choreography Dolores Hulan | assistant production Manon Haase & Elisabeth Hirner | sound technician Adrien Gentizon | compagnie management Kerstin Schroth | production Great Investment | coproduction Volksbühne (Berlijn), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Kaaitheater (Brussel), NEXT
festival / Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk), Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Parijs), Dansehallerne (Kopenhagen), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Julidans (Amsterdam) & CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble | with the support of Nanterre-Amandiers, Centre Dramatique National, Musée de la Danse / Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et de Bretagne & Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek | subsidized by De Vlaamse Gemeenschap, De Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie & The Danish Arts Council
Jury
By staging pornography, she makes it a public issue. It may be all around us, but that is very different from being 'nobody else's business but my own'. Ingvartsen shows us that nothing could be further from the truth.
—Jury report
Pers
One thing’s for sure: after this performance you’ll never look at sex in the same way again.
—De Standaard