Joseph Baan

SHARING: Fugue State

With Fugue State (working title), Josephine Baan and collaborators will use their Tanzhaus residency to work from an ongoing research into invasive species – in particular, Japanese knotweed – as a source to unearth modes of existence beyond what has already been established. The work engages with that which is absent, obscured, or willfully erased; constructed holes in the collective consciousness; lives that manifest through the cracks between existing historical and social infrastructures. Departing from incoherence and illegibility as necessary traits for a politics of non-sovereignty, it investigates the idea of sleeping memory; memories or knowledges that lie dormant until they are awoken.

The work-in-progress Sharing will be followed by a short audience discussion.

Artistic direction Josephine Baan
Performers Teo Ala-Ruona, Josephine Baan, Emmelien Chemouny
Sound and music Luc Häfliger
Dramaturgical support Bendix Fesefeldt, Nils Amadeus Lange
Images Mik Matter, Josephine Baan

Joseph Baan

Joseph Baan is an artist and educator. Their practice engages in art, education and collaboration as ways to forge creative survival. They’re interested in the complexity of collectivity and in the possibility of establishing a solidarity that does not homogenise, but affirms difference. They make performances, installations, texts, group works, collaborative formats, and scores that aim to unpack the problem of relating, shifting roles and readings of power and control in relation to affect and reciprocity.
 

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