Language is Skin: Scripts for Performances

A constellation of texts, largely written to be spoken. The scripts as they are printed do not document the performances primarily. They are indications of spatial and temporal layering, juxtapositions of aesthetic and poetic elements and bodies. Overlapping every day observations with archival material, confronting and jumping. Figures that intervene interruptions into the reproduction and maintenance of colonial poison cabinets and patriarchal canons. Histories of involvement. The folding of histories. Entangling feminist fictions. Taking care of. Trouble, always trouble. Contributors include, Romy Rüegger, Emma Haugh and Katherine MacBride. Romy Rüegger, (b.1983), is an Swiss based artist and writer working with sound based practices and shared listening. Her writings for performances, audio works and choreographed spaces draw on anti-racist and intersectional politics of language and memory. Most of the scripts in this publication were written on invitation of friends and are closely related to long term collaborations.

Romy Rüegger (née en 1983, vit et travaille à Zurich) est une artiste et écrivaine dont la pratique se fonde sur une investigation du son et de l'écoute. Ses scripts pour performances, œuvres audio et espaces chorégraphiés s'appuient sur des politiques anti-racistes et intersectionnelles du langage et de la mémoire. Parmi les performances, œuvres sonores et contributions récentes figurent Synthetic Stream Plays (Kunsthalle Basel, 2018), Binary Codes as NO (Gasworks, Londres, 2018), « I am the Wall » (dans Grounds for Possible Music, Errant Bodies Press, Berlin, 2018), Reina llora*, Reads (Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2017), I am the Wall (Q-O2 / Performatik Festival, Bruxelles, 2017), History is Closed Today (Helmhaus, Zurich, 2017), J'ai everyday ma substance (en collaboration avec Anna Frei, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, 2017).