20 min.
The performance see you backbone one is rooted in an etymological relationship with the words posture and posting, both of which derive from the Latin word ponere, which means to put, place, impose and set.
These words coincide in another aspect too; they describe essential components of a selfie session. This always refers both to the camera itself and to the other side of it - a potential, ever-present audience and normative discourse.
Informed by Sarah Ahmed's concept of "queer use", which describes how things can be used in ways other then they were intended for, the two performers carry out sequences of movements that they distil into sculptural snapshots and linger in them.
see you backbone one extracts the movements and poses of the selfie session from the selfie, reassembles them and reflects on the physicality and function of the selfie.
Concept and Performance by Gaia Del Santo and Sophie Germanier
Performed at Stadtgalerie Baliere in Frauenfeld as part of the group exhibit ‚a room of one’s own’ alongside works by Jessica Jurassica and Claude Bühler, curated by youngpornobuesi
documentation: Luca Klett
