Sandra Noeth Livres

Breathing is an unavoidable, vital act, yet it cannot be taken for granted, as the experiences of the pandemic, profound changes in our environment, but also structural, racist discrimination make clear. In the physical act of breathing, we are symbolically, materially and radically thrown back to our own bodies and connected to the bodies of others. In conversation with artists and theorists from different fields, the contributers to this volume explore different acts of suffocation and release. They show how the protection of bodies is unequally and ambivalently distributed and how it can be an act of resistance. It is an insistence on life, a demand for existential, political, symbolic and ethical recognition.

What does it take to cross a border, and what does it take to belong? Sandra Noeth examines the entangled experiences of borders and of collectivity through the perspective of bodies. By dramaturgical analyses of contemporary artistic work from Lebanon and Palestine, Noeth shows how borders and collectivity are constructed and negotiated through performative, corporeal, movement-based, and sensory strategies and processes. This interdisciplinary study is made urgent by social and political transformations across the Middle East and beyond from 2010 onwards. It puts to the fore the residual, body-bound structural effects of borders and of collectivity and proceeds to develop notions of agency and responsibility that are immanently bound to bodies in relation.

Karl Karner und Linda Samraweerová agieren gattungsübergreifend zwischen Bildender und Darstellender Kunst. Sie entwickeln aus Skulptur, Installation, Performance, Tanz, Theater und Video choreografische Arbeiten, die in Form von Ausstellungen oder Performances international präsentiert werden. Ihre Arbeiten sprechen von Wandlung und Weiterentwicklung: während der installativen Performances, wenn Rezeption Teil der Performance wird oder auch die Skulpturen - trotz festem Zustand scheint alles in Bewegung, in permanenter Mutation. In der gemeinschaftlich konzipierten, opulenten Publikation werden Ihre Experimente der Kommunikation wahrnehmbar und erfahrbar. Biografien: Linda Samaraweerová Choreografin und Performerin 1977 geboren in Prag Tanzausbildung: Brüssel/ P. A. R. T. S. 1998 – 2002 lebt und arbeitet in Österreich Karl Karner Bildhauer, Installationskünstler 1974 geboren in Feldbach Studium: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien / Klasse Heimo Zobernig lebt und arbeitet in Österreich