Perrrformat
Perrrformat
Perrrformat

P13

22.06.2024

Perrrformat x Gessnerallee x CARAH
lo.me
Ultra

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.

Perrrformat

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

Supported by:

– Temperatio
– Stadt Zürich Kultur
– Kanton Zürich
– Dr. Georg und Josi Guggenheim Stiftung
– Migros Kulturprozent
– Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler
– Gessnerallee

Perrrformat

P13
22.06.2024


Perrrformat x Gessnerallee x CARAH
lo.me

Ultra

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.

Perrrformat

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

lo.me, ULTRA, 2024, photo by Binta Kopp, Drop Out Festival / Perrrformat x Gessnerallee Zürich 

Supported by:

– Temperatio
– Stadt Zürich Kultur
– Kanton Zürich
– Dr. Georg und Josi Guggenheim Stiftung
– Migros Kulturprozent
– Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler
– Gessnerallee