Public Property

Direction & Performance: Simone Aughterlony
Sound Design/ Composer: Paul Lemp
Video Artist: David Hera
Promotion/ Design: Tine Van Aerschot
Lighting Design: Ursula Degen

The work must be firmly ambiguous, moral and amoral, self-rightuous in intent and self-denying in stature, communicating in tandem a desire for confession and a denial of responsibility , ethical but disruptive, acknowledging the status of people, belief systems, and power in our culture but refusing to acquiesce. (Douglas Gordon)

Is one's private subjective view of the self and one's public subjective view of the self at all compatible? What does it mean to find the stranger in me and then claim it as myself?

This work will be searching for the appropriate way to perform, both privately and publicly. Dealing with the unconscious bleeding of our private selves into our public persona and vice versa. What set of rules should one perform by? How can we make the audience complicit in our actions?

Calling into question the codes for the representation of emotions. Do we really know what pleasure or pain looks like? Are our readings on some level not just an acknowledgement and replaying of images we see in films and media? A formalised and well learnt set of codes to define others emotions and our own.

Exploring the desire to confess our various private lives, to make something public, to make real, to hand over some responsibility. Dealing with the confusion of perceived opposites; private/public, inside/outside, pain/pleasure. Where does the public interest lie?

Tour Public Property

Gessnerallee Zürich - April 2004, 5 Aufführungen. Weitere Spielorte: Centre Culturel Suisse à Paris - Mai 2004, Impuls Tanzfestival Wien - Juli 2004, Tanz im August Berlin – August 2004, De Internationale Keuze Rotterdam – September 2004, De Single Antwerpen – Oktober 2004, Tanztage Basel – September 2004