Romy Rüegger: The Moving Body, The Listening Body – Moving through wires of wind / Atrium: How do we care?

Romy Rüegger: The Moving Body, The Listening Body – Moving through wires of wind
The exhibition presents works by Romy Rüegger in a first comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany. Her formats extend from performance to audio installations, and choreographed spaces. She connects archival projects with contemporary research and current socio-political debates through performances, which are further developed into displays. The exhibition is conceived in terms of performance, and interpreted as body-space or body-time. The artist composes experimental audio pieces, staged conversations, notations and texts, which are characterized by an antiracist and intersectional politics of language and memory. With associative material-textual constellations that alternate between poetic and documentary approaches, she offers radical perspectives on the present moment.

At Badischer Kunstverein, Romy Rüegger shows the three central works Approaching Ultra Light, Si Tu Vivais Ici… If you lived here and A Fabric in Turkey Red, which she has developed further and repositioned for this exhibition. Connecting these projects is her critical investigation of work-at-home and reproductive work, industrialized factory work, nomadic and non-sedentary populations, labor migration, as well as colonial relations of production and trade. The installations are activated by her performances representing an ongoing mode of reading, revision, and research. In this sense, the spatial configurations never reach a state of completion; instead they are continuously reformulated as a “work in the now.”

Curated by Anja Casser

Performances by Romy Rüegger:
October 1, 2020, 6pm: Si Tu Vivais Ici… If you lived here
October 3, 2020, 3pm: A Fabric in Turkey Red 
November 13, 2020, 7pm: Approaching Ultra Light

Atrium: How do we care?
Sepake Angiama, Staci Bu Shea, Alice Chauchat, Cola Taxi Okay, Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe, Formate Des Dialogs, Vanessa Grasse, Internationales Begegnungszentrum Karlsruhe, Thomas Kampe, Anton Kats, Roni Katz, Chantal Küng, Sandra Noeth, Power Makes Us Sick, Sickness Affinity Group, The School of Narrative Dance

How do we care? is a performance, workshop, lecture, and discussion series, which asks about the fragility and resistance of bodies during times of pandemic and investigates alternative and radical possibilities for caretaking. Artists, performers, dancers, feminist collectives, activist health care alliances, community centers, cultural theoreticians, and somatic practitioners are invited to share new methods as well as (medial/digital) formats, in order to make them accessible for collective action. A central reference is the historical and current impact of women in relation to creative, experimental, and radical spaces of assistance and negotiation. Together with the participants, we will explore how forms of artistic, social, and political action can be empowered. The integrative aspect for all participants is the politicization of the body for a critical interrogation of normative restrictions and categorizations, always in an awareness of the current pandemic, during which new forms of containment and exclusion are being debated through the body in particular – in the politics of healthcare, education, and migration.

Concept by Mira Hirtz & Anja Casser
Supported by the impulse programme “Kunst trotz Abstand” of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg

Programme

October 3, 2020, 6pm: Lecture by Sandra Noeth

October 7, 2020, 5pm: Outdoor performance by Vanessa Grasse

October 14, 2020, 7pm: Performance by Alice Chauchat

October 21, 2020, 6pm: Cola Taxi Okay with: ibz Karlsruhe, et al.

November 4, 2020, 5pm: Workshop & discussion with Thomas Kampe

November 7, 2020
11am: Workshop with Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe
6pm: Panel discussion about Forms of radical health care with Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe, Power Makes Us Sick, Sickness Affinity Group, Formate Des Dialogs
All day: Release podcast by Anton Kats

November 14, 2020, 2pm: Workshop with Chantal Küng

November 18, 2020, 7pm: Lecture by Marinella Senatore (The School of Narrative Dance)

November 28, 2020, 2pm: Workshop with Sepake Angiama & Staci Bu Shea
7pm: Performance by Roni Katz

For more information on the programme please visit: www.badischer-kunstverein.de

Due to the current Corona Ordinance, the participation of all events is limited. We kindly ask to reserve in advance: info [​at​] badischer-kunstverein.de