Duchampiana

The female form, once displayed without agency, breaks free from convention as Duchampiana chooses to move upward, skyward. There is no finish line: the journey towards a free and authentic self means pushing forever onwards. An exercise in resilience and an encounter with truths buried deep within our physical bodies. Duchampiana is an artistic VR installation focused on the theme of body politics. Departing from one of art history’s most notorious paintings, Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, this immersive installation invites its audience to engage in a physical transgression of social constructs.

Descending and ascending are poetically charged motions. While the descent bears the symbolism of retreat, a journey into the unconscious, or to hell, the ascent is associated with awakening, rebirth, a journey towards light, and freedom. I am fascinated with the politics of space, and how those inevitably impact the way we move through and hold ourselves within our surroundings. It’s a dynamic which is being revisited repeatedly in feminist discourse, for Woman’s place is not a given, but requires to be laboriously claimed ever anew. While reversing Duchampiana’s journey down the infinite staircase is my commentary on Woman reclaiming her body, it is in the realm of poetics that I hope the audience experiences this story.

PRODUCTION 1: Tchikiboum – Sarah Arnaud
229 rue Saint-Honore
75001, Paris, France
Tel. 33 638938710
sarah@tchiki-boum.com

PRODUCTION 2: mYndstorm productions UG – Kathrin Brunner
Dianastr. 31
85540, Munich, Germany
Tel. 49 160 7774558
kb@myndstorm.me

PRODUCTION 3: mYndstorm productions GmbH Berlin – Oliver Czeslik
Kaiserdamm 109
14057, Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49 162 454 1771
oc@myndstorm.me

PRESS OFFICE: Mehr als PR – Julia Rommel
Koppel 8, 20099 Hamburg
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