


Photographs: 2020: Obscene by Alexandra Bachzetsis © Melanie Hoffmann
2020: Obscene
In 2020: Obscene, Alexandra Bachzetsis explores the ambiguity of "scene" and "obscene". The performance focuses on the relationship between the staging of the excessive body and its consumption by the coveting gaze and overwhelming textuality. The work examines the problems of theatre as a manipulation machine in places of seduction, attraction, and games of sexual identity on the one hand, and the performing body in its own right as an alienating and limiting force on the other. Throughout the performance, the performers are confronted with their own corporealities - between intuition and gesture, between light and darkness, between score and script, between norm and form, between conception and action. Thus, the piece questions not just the subversive and normative aspects of performance art, but also communication through excess as a radical disruption of formats, gestures, and cultural patterns.
CREDITS
Concept and Choreography
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Collaboration, Concept and Stage
Sotiris Vasiliou
Collaboration, Concept and Dramaturgy Dorota Sajewska
Creation and Performance
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Owen Ridley-DeMonick
Tamar Kisch
Sotiris Vasiliou
Sound Design
Tobias Koch
Costume Design
Christian Hersche
Ulla Ludwig
Laurent Hermann Progin
Communication Design
Julia Born
Photography
Melanie Hofmann
Hair and Make-up
Delia Sciullo
Technical Direction and Light
Patrik Rimann
Technical Team
Alban Schelbert
Jon Brunke
Phil Hills
Valentin Biller
3 Channel Video work
Concept
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Cinematography
Michał Englert
Directed by
Alexandra Bachzetsis in collaboration with Michał Englert
Camer
Michał Englert
Video editing
Sotiris Vasiliou, Alexandra Bachzetsis
Performance
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Owen Ridley-DeMonick
Tamar Kisch
Sotiris Vasiliou
Hair and make-up
Delia Sciullo, Giada Marina Giorgio
Camera Assistance
Paweł Żelasko
Digital Imaging technician
Marcin Boguszewski
Sound composition and editing
Tobias Koch
Sound Recording
Arian Frank
Costume Design
Christian Hersche
Ulla Ludwig
Laurent Hermann Progin
Production and Tour Management
Association All Exclusive, Franziska Schmidt
Production Assistant
Juliana Simonetti
Special Thanks to
Delgado Fuchs, Jia-Yu Corti for participating in the Open Studio research; Bernhard la Dous, Charlotte Holstein
Supported by
The cooperative support agreement between the City of Zurich, the Canton of Zurich, and Pro Helvetia—Swiss Arts Council, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Jacqueline Spengler Stiftung
Co-produced by
Kunsthaus Zürich
Kaserne Basel
Dampfzentrale Bern
Arsenic – Centre d'art scénique contemporain
ADN Neuchâtel
Tanzquartier Wien
Gessnerallee Zürich
This performance is a co-production in the frame of the Programmers’ Fund of Reso—Dance Network Switzerland, supported by Pro Helvetia—Swiss Arts Council