‘Rub Your Face Onto Your Shoulder’ with Sunny Pfalzer and Marshall Vincent
Immaterial Ecologies. A gathering to resynchronise land and body.
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“Rub your face onto your shoulder” (2021) transforms the costumes of Sunny Pfalzers former Performance “Hold a Ghost” (2020) into curtains and pillows. This immersive installation is activated in a live performance in collaboration with the R’n’B musician Marshall Vincent and creates a hybrid of a listening meditation, poetry and a durational musical composition. In the streets the bodies were active, but after the adrenaline rush comes the need to lie down and rest. Sunnys textile sculptures share that experience with the visitor and create a soft ground to dwell and feel taken care of.
“Imagine being on a ship. In all the warmth, the wind blows through your notches, as you can see cold water flowing in the distance. Blue fabrics waving at me. Wrap yourself into curtains as soft tunes troll into our Somatic Nervous System. And sound vibrations rupture on naked skins. My clothes are an extension of your breathing. Lie down on a wooden floor. Rub your face onto your shoulder.”
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Sunny Pfalzer is a performance artist, a Surfer Boy, a Go-Go-Girl and a Slug. They love to cuddle on the street. Whether they perform on stage, sew textile sculptures, hold a camera, or choreograph for public spaces, their approach is always bodily and felt. Through protest methodologies, poetry and pop culture, Sunny depicts how body language can construct statements without words. Facilitating workshops and collaborating is an integral part of Sunny’s processes. Work ethics and friendship underlie Sunny’s practice. Recent presentations include, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Germany, Kunsthalle Wien, Shedhalle and Les Urbaines, Switzerland.
Marshall Vincent is an R&B and pop singer, songwriter, and composer. He has performed in the program of the magazine High Snobiety; the TV Channel Arte; CTM, Berlin; Creepy Teepee, Kutná Hora; Creamcake Berlin; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; His last EP, In No Particular Order, was published in 2021 by SA Recordings, London, and in the same year he issued the remix Saving Face with Gaika.
IMMATERIAL ECOLOGIES
«Immaterial Ecologies» programme includes conversations, concerts, performances, poetry sessions and other artistic practices that will reflect upon the immaterial and spiritual dimensions of ecology.
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