In their performative intervention, lo.me deal with the embodiment of characters that include themselves, the audience and random passers-by. They understand embodiment as an open-ended process in which gestures and movements arise, solidify and dissolve again. In doing so, they play with the viewer's attention and unfold a choreography of gazes and actions in order to question supposedly stable power relations and expectations. What rules of movement and encounters apply in certain spaces? But also: What fantasies are associated with them?

Loren Tschannen (1996, Geneva, CH) and Mélissa Biondo (1994, Saint-Claude, GP) have been collaborating under the name lo.me since 2021. In their performances, built on an ongoing research process, they jointly explore the possibilities of image-making and disembodiment. Drawing on aesthetics from the Internet and video games, as well as principles of extension, amplification, and repetition, their bodies move within emphatically restrictive structures. Across time and their exhaustion, lo.me thereby play with the viewers' expectations, ultimately destabilizing them.

The performance is a collaboration between Perrrformat, CARAH - Collective for Anti-Racist Art History and Gessnerallee Zürich. It is part of this year's Gessnerallee Drop Out Festival.

Date: 22.06.2024 

Start: 15:00 

Location: Stone structure at corner Lindenstrasse, Lakeside, 47.357112, 8.549100

Note: The performance will take place in all weathers. Barrier-free access to the location.