doris magico back to the wall
150min
Series of videos performances, Great Wall, Qinghai Lake, Gobi desert, China 2017. Anne Rochat plans to conduct an ambitious project Doris Magico Back to the Wall and walking through the Great Wall in China in April 2017 was her first step. She captured her experience with one video and one live performance per day, and produced in places she considered extraordinary and symbolic. She conducted a similar walking in the Gobi area in Taklimakan Xinjiang. The insignificance of a woman going through the immensity of China, Great Wall, Qinghai lake area, and Gobi Desert, endows this walking journey a meaning beyond imagination. Crossing China by foot represents an artistic, political, and physical act that is enlightened by a contemplative walk, which privileges slowness above the speed and efficacy imperatives of our everyday lives. The important thing is not the aim or the goal, but the path that is traveled, and about being in accordance with the surrounding environment. The Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti considered Humans as walking beings, dignified and sensible. If we think of walking as perpetually coming back to oneself, walking is also a call to unity among the multitude. Anne Rochat wishes to unite these heterogeneous dimensions, showing that the body is the soul.
Support by Pro Helvetia Shangai link: https://prohelvetia.cn/en/2017/03/10/...
grünewalde
22min
Vidéo performance in the wild Berlin
klingende nacht
Avec / with Laurent Bruttin
5 heures en résonance avec les machine de Jean Tinguely.
cc Simon Letellier
Performance Process, 60 ans de l’art performatif suisse, Centre culturel suisse de Paris & Tinguely Museum, Basel
obsidian
Avec / with Ariel Garcia
62min
cc Manuel Vason
Fierce Festival Birmingham / Bone Festival 20 Bern
https://wearefierce.org/events/obsidian/
sepia
100min
Counter Space Zurich, Radios romandes
Sound by: Ariel Garcia
Thanks to: Anna Schlossbauer
Texts by: Alain Freudiger, Alessandro Boseti, Anne Rochat, Aurélie De Morsier, Benoît Billotte, Carine Saloff-Coste, Ariel Garcia, Charlotte Herzig, Dragos Tara, Federica Martini, Gian Manuel Rau, Jean Rochat, Jess Huber, Judith Piel--Rochat, Laurent Bruttin, Sibylle Omlin, Luc Andrié, Madeleine Amsler, Manon Piel, Sibylle Omlin, Stéphane Argillet, Vinit Agarwal.
http://www.counterspace.ch/index.php/upcoming/18-rochat-anne-/
The performances of Anne Rochat cast the body as a primitive yet delicate marker. The mouth is often used to tear, push, move and/or demolish daily objects and architectural surroundings. Distanced from its contemporary civilized usages. A practice that embraces the visceral wherein destruction is a form of creation. For her project with Counter Space, Rochat turns to the political. She questions conditions of contemporary Switzerland; bunkers for all, the world’s biggest tax haven, and a nation performing very well in many measures of well-being. A place faraway from many harsh realities of the world.
In den Performances von Anne Rochat kommt dem Körper die Rolle eines elementaren doch zarten Zeichens zu. Oft wird der Mund eingesetzt, um alltägliche Gegenstände zu zerren, wegzuschieben, zu bewegen und die gestaltete Umgebung zu zerstören – abgesetzt vom heutigen gesitteten Gebrauch des Mundes. Dies versteht sich als eine Praxis, der das Zerstören als Spielart des Schöpferischen gilt. In ihrem Projekt mit Counter Space wendet sich Roachat dem Politischen zu. Sie befragt den Zustand der Schweiz: jeder und jedem einen zugesicherten Platz im Bunker; die weltgrösste Steueroase; und überhaupt eine Nation, die sehr gut abschneidet bei vielen Messgrössen, die Wohlergehen ausmachen. Ein Ort, der weit entfernt liegt von einigen rauen Umständen der restlichen Welt.