Approaching Ultra Light

The performance APPROACHING ULTRA LIGHT is based on the artist's research and interviews with mobile population groups in Switzerland, southern Germany and Alsace. The interest in the topic is based on early wanted pictures, wanted lists and biopolitical efforts to homogenize and whitewash the population in these areas. In her performance, Romy Rüegger uses text, language and sound to deal with the archiving and handling this knowledge and incorporates various associations.

What is the right to opacity we discuss memory as a filter and, with it, the choices we make in narrating and performing who we are and how we came to be.

The performance is a set of loose associations via projections, sets of movements and alternating sentences that wander about the question of the traveller and her status in a time of an overt manifestation of the nation-state and all the (imperial) border politics connected to it.
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Author: Rome Ruegger, Switzerland