"To become part of a landscape as image
To delimit it.
To surrender to standstill in the midst of movement.
To suddenly break out of it.
To stand, to observe, to stand still and, perhaps, to attack."
In real time, lo.me en-/tangle dialectical forms, atmospheres, and shapes of an environment. They understand embodiment—becoming a body—as a continuous process in which they as performers, but also everyone else—the audience and passers-by—are embedded.
As characters that develop, solidify, and dissolve again over time and in different spaces lo.me make use of certain movements and put them to the test in terms of their self-evidence and situatedness. What rules of movement and encounter apply in specific spaces? What mechanisms of control, alienation and identification come into play? But also: what fantasies are linked to them?
Between two stage-like structures on the northeastern shore of Freiburg's Seepark, a choreography of relations of gaze, action, and identification unfolds. In its ambivalent handling of the viewer's attention, lo.me blurs the boundaries between beginning and end, between object and subject of observation, between docility and mastery. Formal elements such as duration, blurriness, minimalism, and repetition meet spontaneity and unpredictability-with the aim of challenging and potentially shifting supposedly stable power relations and expectations.
Text: Biennale für Freiburg 2
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 (Luca Büchler, Paula Thomaka, Martina Morger and Carolina Misztela) and the Biennale für Freiburg and will take place at the Festival in Freiburg in July.
Date: 16.06.2023
Start: 19:30
Location: Stone Snail, Seepark Freiburg, Germany
Note: The performance will take place in all weathers and is barrier-free accessible
ProHelvetia
Biennale für Freiburg
"To become part of a landscape as image
To delimit it.
To surrender to standstill in the midst of movement.
To suddenly break out of it.
To stand, to observe, to stand still and, perhaps, to attack."
In real time, lo.me en-/tangle dialectical forms, atmospheres, and shapes of an environment. They understand embodiment—becoming a body—as a continuous process in which they as performers, but also everyone else—the audience and passers-by—are embedded.
As characters that develop, solidify, and dissolve again over time and in different spaces lo.me make use of certain movements and put them to the test in terms of their self-evidence and situatedness. What rules of movement and encounter apply in specific spaces? What mechanisms of control, alienation and identification come into play? But also: what fantasies are linked to them?
Between two stage-like structures on the northeastern shore of Freiburg's Seepark, a choreography of relations of gaze, action, and identification unfolds. In its ambivalent handling of the viewer's attention, lo.me blurs the boundaries between beginning and end, between object and subject of observation, between docility and mastery. Formal elements such as duration, blurriness, minimalism, and repetition meet spontaneity and unpredictability-with the aim of challenging and potentially shifting supposedly stable power relations and expectations.
Text: Biennale für Freiburg 2
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 (Luca Büchler, Paula Thomaka, Martina Morger and Carolina Misztela) and the Biennale für Freiburg and will take place at the Festival in Freiburg in July.
Date: 16.06.2023
Start: 19:30
Location: Stone Snail, Seepark Freiburg, Germany
Note: The performance will take place in all weathers and is barrier-free accessible
ProHelvetia
Biennale für Freiburg