PERFORMANCE/DANCE/INSTALLATION
APRIL 03 & 04 | 19.00
APRIL 03 & 04 | 21.00
15/10 €
Montag Modus: archive of futures is a three-part project that features artists and artistic positions, primarily from Hungary and Poland, centering around local cosmologies, practices of worldmaking and decolonial historiographies.
The kick-off event presents Figuring Age by Boglárka Börcsök and Andreas Bolm, a transgenerational, immersive and haunting performance-installation, set at the liminal space between film, dance and theater. In a fictional ghost seance hosted by Börcsök and Bolm, visitors encounter three elderly dancers: Éva, Irén and Ágnes – aged between 90 and 101 – were once part of the development of modern dance in Hungary in the 1930s. Based on recordings of the dancers filmed in their private homes, the artist duo has sculpted a meticulous choreography of embodiment that lets their protagonists return on stage through Börcsök’s body and voice.
Retracing how each of the women transformed their life and dance practice to survive the socio-political changes of the 20th century, the artists explore how resilience, silences and traumas are inscribed in the body and in the movement. Figuring Age is a choreography of memories that offers through personal histories a framework to think about possible causes for the current rise of nationalism in the post-socialist Hungarian context.
BOGLÁRKA BÖRCSÖK is a Berlin-based choreographer, dancer and performer. She studied dance at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Austria and at P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium. As a performer, she has collaborated and worked with choreographers and artists such as Ligia Lewis, Kate McIntosh, Joachim Koester, Tino Sehgal and Eszter Salamon, with whom she has realized several projects in Salamon's acclaimed MONUMENT series.
ANDREAS BOLM is a Berlin-based filmmaker, artist and producer. He studied at the documentary department of the University of Television and Film in Munich. His films have been screened at numerous internationally renowned festivals, including Festival de Cannes - Cinefondation, Berlinale - Perspektive deutsches Kino, MoMA New York.
Since 2017 Boglárka Börcsök and Andreas Bolm have been collaborating in the field of performing arts. Using choreographic methods, they explore how memory and history are expressed in personal gestures and movements, probing the fine line between documentary and fiction.