At a time when we have come accustomed to encounter images and people, history as well as the banal, simply as fleeting parts of a continuous downstream, Camilla Schielin points to the flip side of this so-called timeline. Not only do new and seemingly important things get lost – but things we had forgotten are inclined to make a “ghostly return”. One example is “Tecktonik”, a dance style that was developed in the 2000s in France and enjoyed a short period of popularity on YouTube: Schielin rescues it from oblivion, using it as a tool to work herself deeper into the eponymous quickening ground. An impressive solo between collective memory and biography, embodiment and virtuality.
Concept and performance: Camilla Schielin
Sound: Paul Ebhart (with additional guitar recordings by Luis Hackbeil Krüger)
Costume design: Karolin Braegger
Artistic advice: Andrius Mulokas
In dialogue with: Julia Müllner, Yoh Morishita, Claire Lefevre, Magdalena Forster and Luca Büchler
Co-production: Tanzquartier Wien (AT) and Camilla Schielin
With support from the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs Vienna (AT) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sports (AT)
Thanks to the Bears in the Park residency programme (AT) and ada Studio Berlin (DE)