Emma Verrijt
Keywords: Line, Embodied research
Internship: Elias Kurdy, Marseille
How does the line move you through space?
The line serves as a methodology to research the kinetic qualities of space. The line is an idea that we project on forms that are longer than they are wide. A thread, a trace, movement, etc. A material manifestation of the line in space describes the outline of things, suggests surfaces and creates volumes without having mass. The line can be simultaneously interpreted as a boundary and a creator of new possibilities. To unravel architecture to a constellation of lines brings a perspective on constructing spaces that requires minimal resources.
In this work, the effect of lines on the spatial experience is explored through embodied research. Proposing alternative bodily movements in the spaces we inhabit by relating to, embodying and moving around the lines —exploring the spaces they facilitate. In a practice based on embodiment, we think through the entirety of our bodies. If the body is in the world and the world is experienced through the body, fusing them into a singular experience, it allows me to conclude that both space and the lines that are affecting it are thinking vessels.
In a state of curiosity over reason, the performers articulate movements resulting from their encounters with lines. You are free to explore for yourself when there is no performance.
In collaboration with and performed by Giuliana Nanna, Zenya Kreischer, Jéssica Laís Gonçalves, Lara Göbel and Sofie Sochorcová.
