Ein Interview mit Vera Sofia Mota und Kristoffer
Ström.
What were your first experiences with theatre?
Before this project, Kristoffer had no experience
in the field of performance art. He was so taken by the
experience, he was heard exclaiming 'I have a body'. Vera began her
training at age eleven with classical and modern dance classes in her home
town, Espinho. She often says that she would like to be out of her body.
What is the idea of your art
in general?
Coming from philosophical,
scientific and artistic backgrounds, we want to explore concepts of bodies,
movement, position and perceptions thereof. We are experimenting as we go with
software and hardware technology.
How did you get the idea for
the performance Second love?
In 2009 Vera did the performance There is no
love like the first, where she combined classical ballet 'positions' with
'natural' movements of the body using a stroboscopic light to allow, that
neither the creator nor the spectator could choose completely what
was being shown or received. At this same time, Kristoffer was working on a
sequencing program for music and sound.
We met in Berlin in 2011 and for Second Love
we wanted to go further in exploring the relations between light, body,
movement, and perception and we decided to create a structure within which we
can add sounds and music as well as control the light in different ways,
playing with construction and randomness and pushing the game a bit further
while confronting our different physical languages under this apparatus.
How would you describe the relationship between the
two of you?
We like to think about our friendship in
philosophical terms, as in being stronger together than each on their own, and
having a kind of common language, or pre-language, that allow us an intense
exchange and questioning of each other's ways of relating, working and acting.
Vera Sofia Mota / Kristoffer Ström
Second Love
Sonntag, 17 Uhr
HAU3 Bühne