collective fragments is a performative process and an experimental piece, which takes place during five days at Tunnel Tunnel. This collective is formed by performers and participants from all fields and is open to all upon registration.

By sharing practices in a safe space and in a relaxed setting in a collective way, the space becomes a laboratory where an ephemeral, sprawling, rhizomatic community of people can explore what a body can do or what bodies can do together, what bodies are and mean to each other; how they can share space, presence and energy. Each dance is rooted somewhere and has a powerful and transformative potential.

The week is structured in daily body and choreographic practices in the morning, followed by gatherings, shared storytelling and explorations indoors and in the public space. We will dance and practice wild inclusion. A compilation of texts, videos, images and other scores will be collected and exhibited: from postmodern dance, somatics or anthropology to ecology and speculative sciences, activism, queer theory and practices (Simone Forti, Trisha Brown, Eva Karczag, Vincianne Desprets, Nastassja Martin, Helene Cixous, Philipp Descola, Arudathi Roy, Donna Haraway, Timothy Morton, Audre Lorde, Sara Ahmed and more).

PROGRAM

Monday 30.08.21 to Friday 03.09.21:
10:00–16:30: Body practices, readings, conversations, explorations.
Open to everyone upon registration (maximum 5 participants): centre.choregraphique.ouvert@gmail.com. Full attendance during the week is preferred if possible. Physical proximity is required. As such, if you wish to participate either you have to have been vaccinated twice or you present a very recent auto-test.

Saturday 04.09.21:
16:00–20:00 Open stage
20:00–22:00 Ballroom dance
16:00–22:00 Exhibition

Open to all upon registration

ARTISTS
Dorota Gaweda and Eglè Kulbokaité are an artistic duo based in Basel. Their practice ranges from performance to text, sculpture, video, photography and installations as well as fragrance. The duo founded the collective YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP in 2013. The duo has exhibited internationally.

Meloé Gennai is an artistex, poetx and performerx based in Geneva. They identifie as ‘Handi’. Their practice is currently focused on languages and cultures informed by disabilities studies.

Anne Sylvie Henchoz is an artist and performer based in Lausanne. A graduate of HEAD-Geneva, her work has been shown in numerous Swiss institutions and abroad. She is currently developing a project for a choreographic center open to all (CHO).

Jonsson Christina is a Danish artist and performer. She curated the Lausanne art space ‘Espace d’Arts Saint-Valentin’ from 2011 to 2018. She currently works between Lausanne, Copenhagen and Bornholm Island and continues to develop artistic projects through objects, performances, curations and collaborations.

Eva Karczag is a dancer and artist. Since the early 1970s, she has been developing personal and collaborative work around the exploratory potential of dance, in terms of transmission and creation. She was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1979 to 1985.

Rosida Koyuncu, born in Kurdistan in 1988, is an artist, journalist, filmmaker and LGBTIQ+ activist. She has been living in Geneva as a political refugee since January 2017.

Dorothea Rust studied dance in New York in the 80’s before studying fine arts as well as cultural and gender studies in Zurich (ZHdK). Her work ranges from performance to exhibitions as well as writing and curating performative and discursive platforms.