2. Relational/ Interrelational Approach

Researching the relationship between me and the egg, then other layers became more important. (contradictory gestures of care/ protection)

Leaving my onw traces on the eggshell: Taking out the code of the German industry, Afterwards, It s left with another mark of that procees. another scar. April 2024.

This semester in 2024 I had the mentoring from Felix Ott and Angela Alves. Tutoring from Sandra Noeth.

The physical and spatial analysis pushed me to question the issue of care and protection.

This is when my interest in the actual relationship between me and the egg started in 2022.

Here the work was incredibly nourished by observing Claire Cunningham's perspectives. (Claire is a disable maker and choreographer, and now professor in the HZT) 

During the winter semester W/S 2023/24, I attended various activities offered by the new working team of “Choreography, Dance and Disability Arts” at the HZT professorship. From the team I met: Claire Cunningham, Luke Pell, Nadja Dias, Angela Alves, one of  my mentors who questions ableism structures from her experience as a Berliner artist (*The other mentor is Felix Ott)

These included intensive dance workshops with Dance bas students, SODA MA programm, attending the Lecture Demonstration "4 Legs Good", observing their process of creating the new solo piece "Wayfarers"3, and receiving artistic general support with an access perspective from Nadja Dias.

Some tasks in their workshops were : Noticing, observing, attention giving.

and the questions of care in dance, intrinsic in her work strongly influenced and enriched my work. although I am a  not disable body.

The project of Claire's team runs in Crip Time, a concept that:

“acknowledges that disability brings a person into conflict with normative concepts and frames of time and productivity.

Questions that prompted this search:

Who is taking care of whom?

Who is saving whom?

who sustains the space we share?

Who sustains the space me and the egg share?

who sustains the space you and me share?

how do you insist on preserving bodies in a context that can not protect them? or in a context that is even against them?

Contact with other fileds in arts, in dance. The work of Claire Cunningham resonates:

“Time as care

Communication as care

Design as care

Performance as care

The complexity of care”*

*About the choreography of care, Claire Cunningham said:“ This idea of care has been something I have been thinking and talking about a lot over recent years with a number of colleagues and collaborators, in particular with artist and dramaturg Luke Pell, Professor Julia Watts Belser, choreographer/director Jess Curtis and my producing team. In our dialogues and practices, we drew on Crip, queer and ally knowledge to develop a concept I call "the choreography of care".In: Claire Cunningham, “Equations of Care and Responsability,” ed. Kasia Wolifska and Uferstudios GmbH, DANCEOLITICS, 2021, 67–79,  

Collecting Eggshells and the eggs. The eggs on the box are from Angela s friend. She gave me from the 10 chickens in Brandenburg. the other two eggs are from the supermarket.

This is a futile conservation art: Cleaning broken eggshells. 

stubborn preservation instinct.

I observed that my behavior towards the egg changed. An interaction of care and protection emerged. the eggshell practice was providing me a safe space to deepen the next step of the work.  

lead into the egg and its fragilities, its layers, its limitations and potentials and the relationship towards it. With a further outlook into my own conceptual and performative treatment of the proposed 

(Here it resonates so much with Claire s C. ideas and approaches.

For more info on how this Influenced me, please have a look at my Essay 201.

The legacy

An installation attempt of eggshells allowed me to dig into the story of the egg. 

what is the legacy of this body, the model of production and industrial machinery systems that is part of the context in which it is located.Here in Berlin, Germany ?

Where the eggs I eat come from, differences from organic eggs, the grading system in Germany, the coding system and dates, the conditions of the hens in the factories, the information given to the consumer on the cartons, the prices, the colors.  Transportation process. the process it goes through before I get my hands on it.

When buying free-range eggs, what are the differences in quality? 

the journey the egg had before we met. the history I carried before we met. When we met, what was the journey between us?

Workshop visit to Felix Ott. April 2024. trying out different materials/treatments/operations/interventions to relate to the Egg. Hands from Felix