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A Part Of Art

Place: Museum Ludwig, Cologne

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Performed by: Marlene Kollender & Julian Westermann

Invited by: Kunstfreunde des Museum Ludwigs 

Artists: Mouvoir/Stephanie Thiersch, Isabella Fürnkäs, Felipe Gonzalez Berrios

Works: Amygdala

In Isabella Fürnkäs’ performance Amygdala, an unpredictable choreography of connections emerges. Here, where the positions and movements of the individuals are connected by a common red thread, they become a networked whole, disclosing their complex interplay.

The amygdala (also known as the so-called “almond core”) is a paired neocortical structure of the limbic system. It is involved in emotional reactions as well as the storage of memories and memory related contents – inside, emotion and memory, connection and development correlate. Something similar happens in the performative staging by the artist Isabella Fürnkäs: On the upper floor of the museum, two performers face each other, entangled in a long, red thread – their immediate connections are visually revealed. In the process of their “unraveling”, they gradually release themselves from their red bonds until both are finally holding the loose ends of their connection in their bare hands.

In a ritual act between detachment and establishing new contact, a performer threads the red thread through hand-sized metal rings that have been distributed to visitors. A network of connections be- gins to evolve through movement. In its visualization, the red thread seems reminiscent of organic wiring or intimate as well as architectural dynamics: Who is leading the thread? Where do tensions, entanglements or collisions possibly arise?

A game of contact and detachment, connection and development emerges.

- Text by Anna K. Wlach

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