nu simakina's solo
A triptych with an epilogue
Language greatly influences our thoughts and even our feelings. It constructs all personal and professional communication, builds our thinking and organizes society. But verbal, familiar ways of communication sometimes do not help us fully understand each other. What if it is possible to invent new forms of language through connecting to one’s body and unconsciousness?
Maybe our experiential perception and the ability to give freedom to intuition and spontaneity would help us understand each other better. This performance was created under conditions of strict censorship and impossibility to publicly speak certain words. In the process, I try to find different ways to speak about censored topics another way.
The project consists of three parts and an epilogue. In the first part - preparatory - we look at the main part of the body responsible for the language. The performer prepares the main apparatus for the use of the language and tries out its possibilities. In the second part, the origin of language is modeled with the help of somatic practices and body sensations. In the third part, with the help of music, it is encrypted that in the modern context it is impossible to speak out loud, the phrase depends on the place and context where the performance is shown and always sounds differently. In Russia the phrase "No to war" was used, in Serbia "Kosovo is not Serbia". In the epilogue, the performer feels non-verbal communication and tries to convey her thoughts and feelings to the audience.
