AQ 01 01 Shit (…) I Forgot (…) Again (…)

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In Shit (…) I Forgot (…) Again (…), Carla Vollmers explores the fragility and construction of memory.
This group performance combines theoretical research, choreography, and spoken word to make the mechanisms of multi-perspective perception tangible. How is memory created? Which perspectives are handed down, which are made invisible? How does spatial positioning influence what we believe to be truth?

The focus is on the tension between individual and collective memories: Memory is not a neutral archive, but is subject to continuous transcripition – it is shaped by social orders, power relations and personal experiences. The work takes up this changeability choreographically and transforms it bodily in space. Fragmentation and spatial displacement play a central role: bodies search for touch, seem to find it – yet from a different perspective, it emerges that the encounter never really took place, but was only an illusion. Viewers are free to move around the space during the performance, which constantly changes the – and how fragile memory ultimately is. These shifts point to a larger social dynamic: Who remembers? Who speaks? Which stories become established? In Shit (…) I Forgot (…) Again (…), memory becomes visible as a conflictual, fluid and political practice, while the confrontation with it remains deeply personal. The production builds on in with Vollmer’s work Touch Gloves and a Farewell (2024) and will be realized site-specifically at Zirka, Munich. From Carla Vollmers Carla Vollmers completed her diploma in sculpture, stage design and philosophy at the HFG Offenbach in 2023 and has been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in the Klasse Pirici ever since. In her practice, she focuses on performance and interdisciplinary procceses. She has been collaborating with dancers and developing choreographic approaches for many years. In her work, vollmer exprores interpersonal relationships as a geteway to broader theoretical and social structures, which she translates into bodily and spatial reflections. She is prticularly interested in contradictions – thresholds between violence and affection, dependencies, intimacy and distance, as well as the interplay of individual and collective experiences. By Aurora Molinari Lee Kern Pierre-Yves Delannoy Camila Mos Jiangyue Guo Sound by: James Jordan Johnson