Amina Szecsödy: Mean Time
Performance as part of exhibition: Luiz Roque. Estufa
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S Hackescher Markt
S Oranienburger Straße
U Rosenthaler Platz
›Mean Time‹ is a solo performance that propagates 'the word' toward both its emancipatory potential and its abuses of power. Through speech and song, the work's protagonist, a female oracle, spins a chaotic web of prophecies. Oscillating between agency and self-negation, the oracle herself is an ambiguous figure, providing access to a future via wise and prophetic predictions, while also being a frenzied and possessed woman, often talking in riddles.
The performance is a continuation of Amina Szecsödy’s research into historic notions of the female* body and voice, setting its exploitation and oppression against its subversive expression as a disruptor of power. Rebuilding and hybridising fragments of quotes, overheard conversations, sounds, and articles, she navigates through equations of ethics, perverting the voices of the recent past, the immediate present and monstrous future.
The piece is a new iteration and is presented as part of Berlin Art Week 2024.