The Body Remembers
“The Body Remembers” is a 20-minute one-on-one performance.
A personal story will be shared to the audience member through physical scores created based on imagries from memories, with a certain amount of text, which provides only necessary description for the spectators to dive into the narrative. The audience would be invited to exchange a story after the sharing.
It was inspired by the idea of exchanging suffering mentioned in the book “Exquisite Pain”, written by French artist Sophie Calle. In which Calle decided to keep exchanging her suffering experience with painful memories of her friends or encounters, until she cured herself after three months by comparing her pain with other people’s or worn out her own story through repetition.
It is considered a thread pulling together the curing process through repeated exchange of memories, and body scoring, a performing approach that Jovita has been exploring since 2020. Body Scoring is creating a bodily score that is repeatable through revisiting autobiographical memories with abstract association, bodily sensations, and concrete text descriptions.
1-on-1 session in Cantonese
一對一環節，廣東話進行
“The Body Remembers” is a 20-minute one-on-one performance.
A personal story will be shared to the audience member through physical scores created based on imagries from memories, with a certain amount of text, which provides only necessary description for the spectators to dive into the narrative. The audience would be invited to exchange a story after the sharing.
It was inspired by the idea of exchanging suffering mentioned in the book “Exquisite Pain”, written by French artist Sophie Calle. In which Calle decided to keep exchanging her suffering experience with painful memories of her friends or encounters, until she cured herself after three months by comparing her pain with other people’s or worn out her own story through repetition.
It is considered a thread pulling together the curing process through repeated exchange of memories, and body scoring, a performing approach that Jovita has been exploring since 2020. Body Scoring is creating a bodily score that is repeatable through revisiting autobiographical memories with abstract association, bodily sensations, and concrete text descriptions.
Hong Kong | HART Haus | August 2022
1-on-1 session in Cantonese
一對一環節，廣東話進行