Catinca Malaimare: Emergency Ex
Kunsthaus NRW, September 2022Part of the Very Contemporary Performance Festival
A performance by Catinca Malaimare.
Emergency Ex is an intimate encounter between human bodies and machines. In a choreography of movement, sound and light, human and non-human actors become equal collaborators in creating a sensuous and otherworldly environment. Suggesting not just a technical, but an affective codependency between us and our screens, Emergency Ex conjures a not-so-distant future where face and interface have become indistinguishable.
On 24th September 2022, the Very Contemporary network organised a joint “cross-border” performance festival for the first time. Institutions from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands showed selected performative positions at the Kunsthaus NRW in Aachen-Kornelimünster. The participating institutions were Greylight Projects (Heerlen NL), IKOB (Eupen BE), Jester (Genk BE), Kunsthaus NRW (Aachen DE), Leopold-Hoesch-Museum (Düren DE), NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (Aachen DE).
Performed by Nona Munixx, Alekszandr Szivkovin & Catinca Malaimare
Three-channel music arrangement composed by Joshua Fay
Photography: Anna Gala, Copyright Very Contemporary 2022 and Kunsthaus NRW 2022