Tova Gerge & Britta Kiessling

About the artists
- Tova Gerge is a writer, performer and project manager active primarily in the fields of literature, theatre and dance. Her artistic interests often concern questions of power, body politics and subversive intimacy, with modes of working influenced by activist culture, contemporary dance and game design.
  
  Britta Kiessling is a performer and performance maker working with text and art exhibitions. She has an interest in the interplay between the structures of gaze and power when it comes to the body, intimacy, sexuality and not least the possibility for love. She has also participated in the european rope bondage scene as a performer.
About the residency
- 1-12 of June 2020, Tova Gerge and Britta Kiessling (in cooperation with Elize Arvefjord, Caroline Byström and Ekaterina Lukoshkova) have a residency at MDT. Together, we develop the project Passivity Rules/Memories of Being Hanged. Passivity Rules are systems where passivity facilitates something, opens up something. It is also an interjection, a way to put passivity first: Passivity rules! Memories of Being Hanged stands for experiences of losing control over one’s passivity, being close to dying or disappearing, concretely or metaphorically. Passivity Rules/Memories of Being Hanged is about what is going on in a body that seems to sink, let go, lose its grip – or that actually does.
Residency dates 2020
- 1-12/6