GENTLE PAIN

 

 

Gentle pain is a trio configuration of movement artist Katarzyna Paluch, sound artist Kelsey Cotton and visual artist Urška Medved.

 

As a trio they engage in multidisciplinary exploration within the framework of semi-structured improvisation. Their work together takes the form of an installation-based live performance, featuring improvised movement, a dynamically changing scenography and live electroacoustic sound art. The combination of movement, scenography and sound in this improvised context means that we dynamically change and rebuild our performance space in real-time.

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Thematically, gentle pain seeks to confront the tensions and tenderness of human experience. At present, our improvisations together are focused on exploring contrasts and investigating how our respective disciplines communicate aspects of contrast beyond the use of language. Currently, we focus on the transition between silence and noise, and examine how these contrasts invite and provoke tensions within our own respective artistic practices and in our collaboration with each other.

 

“We peek through the spaces and chasms, looking for lightness. Between parallel times, we twitch and shudder - gently, delicately, yet full of foreboding. Gentle Pain brings movement, sound and visual to bear - all three together without hierarchical order. Dancing upon a knifepoint, finding ease together in unease; composing a performative creation in time and space.”

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Foto: Urška Medved and Angelika Thiele

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Public Showings:

Humanography festival, Gotaplatsen, Gothenburg, April 2023  ExPro Stage, Valand, Gothenburg, May 2023

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Upcomming:

Gothenburg Fringe Festival 2024, 6. and 7. September