L'animoteur 14 — donkey stor(i)es

L'animoteur 14 — donkey stor(i)es

intervention and ritual in public space in Płocku Poland

  • concept

    Dorothea Rust

  • material

    • garments: from «L'animoteur 5 + 6» shirt and the cut-up trousers (reassembled with safty pins) | black men's shoes with metal fittings | 'donkey tail' made of wool
    • visual panels: kinetic image «L'animoteur 4 + 12» |  from all L'animoteur performances a selection of image panels and a selection of text panels with quotes from Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous
    • songs: «I am all alone» (donkey song from the film Shrek) | «Your are so beautiful to me», version Billie Preston | karaoke «I am the Champion of the world» (Queens)
    • body marking: one half of the face in 'donkey colours' based on «L'animoteur 5 + 6» | on the legs zebra stripes of the wild donkey (applied by Anina Müller)

  • place | date

    «OPOWIEŚCI STORIES. The world is more complicated than our truths about it.»
    Performance Festival with 20 international artists.x
    at Muzeum Mazowieckie w Płocku
    19—22 July 2023
    performance intervention in public space in Płocku: 20 July 2023

  • Performance festival with 20 inter­na­tional artists, art instal­lations, an open off-stage for young artists, film screenings – lectures by Laurie Anderson from Harvard University in 2020/​2021, discussions, art sessions, meetings with artists, presen­tations, VestAndPage workshops referring to the works of Stefan & Franciszka Themerson*:

    Inês R. Amado (Portugal) | Hedda Amundsen (Norway) | Marilyn Arsem (USA) | Laura Bartolomei (Italy) | Tanja Brüggemann (Austria) | Olha Chyhryk (Ukraine) | Maya Gordon (Poland/​Netherlands/​Israel) | Kurt Johan­nessen (Norway) | Pawel Korbus (Poland) | Jolanta Krukowska (Poland) | Weronika Lewan­dowska (Poland) | Alastair Maclennan (Northern Ireland / Scotland | Rita Marhaug (Norway) | Anina Müller (Switz­erland) | Joanna Rajkowska (Poland) | Chris Regn (Switz­erland) | Petro Riaska (Ukraine) Nigel Rolfe (Great Britain / Ireland) | Dorothea Rust (Switz­erland) | Dorothea Schürch (Switz­erland) | Andrea Saemann (Switz­erland) | Kjetil Skoien (Norway) | Silje Eugenie Strande Oktner (Norway) | Yaryna Szumska (Ukraine) | Volodymyr Topiy (Ukraine) | Hana Umeda (Poland) | Irena Wiszniewska (Poland) | Natalia Zagórska-Thomas (Great Britain / Poland) | Ewa Zarzycka (Poland)

    * Stefan Themerson was a Polish, later British poet, novelist, film-maker, publisher and philosopher

  • organised

    Małgorzata Sady and Muzeum Mazowieckie w Płocku