Nina Kurtela / 365 routines
(work in progress)
Performances / open rehearsals will be held:
Friday 16.06 at 20h
Saturday 17.06. at 20h
Sunday 18.06. at 20h
Tuesday 20.06. at 20h
Video installation can be viewed from 16. to 24.6 in the working hours of the gallery:
Tuesday – Friday (12-19)
Saturday (11-13)
Concept / Video Performance: Nina Kurtela and Hana Erdman
Performance in GMK: Nina Kurtela and Maja Marjančić
Video editing: Nina Kurtela
In May 2016, Hana Erdman and Nina Kurtela began the project “365 routines”. Two artists take turns making eight counts of movement on a daily basis in order to arrive at a one year long choreography. The sequence is built alternately. They record the movement on video and share it over email, every time beginning where the last movement left off. Accordingly the sequence increases by eight counts every day and in one year reaches 2,920 counts or 48 minutes.
This choreography demonstrates the on-going communication between two different environments, locations, languages, identities, spaces and times. A common space is generated through the execution of this task. Through this daily ritual Kurtela and Erdman engage in an imaginary space of belonging that is no longer physical or territorial, but it’s more of an emotional space, an abstract space. With this choreography they create a fictional space, not geographically located. The dancing becomes home for them.
They are interested in notions of continuity, dedication, communication and sharing. By translating the movement material from the video archive (documented in different locations around the world – from Taipei to Los Angeles) they looking at the movement and the body affected with conditions of todays young makers – constant mobility, dislocation, homelessness, exhaustion – traveling and creating work with space and time limitation. At the same time they are exploring the simple notions of a dance phrase and what does it means today in context of contemporary dance and choreography.
In GMK Nina Kurtela will present first phase of a research in a form of open studio/ open rehearsal where audience is invited witness their learning process of the 48 minutes long dance sequence.
Supported by:
Dance center TALA
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia
City of Zagreb
