Larysa Venediktova The cruelty of possibility

Larysa Venediktova

Larysa Venediktova

The cruelty of possibility
  • Creation year: 2022
  • Tags: Dance,
  • Presentation place: Kyiv
  • Duration: 45 minutes

 

Larisa Venediktova is a performer, choreographer, and researcher. Since 2000, she has been the curator of the TanzLaboratorium performance group. She teaches at the Kyiv Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Arts.

 

TanzLaboratorium is an independent research performance group that explores and problematizes the relationship between dance and contemporary art, between the artist and the viewer, between the subject and the object, between context and personal practice, and between funding and the production of art.

 

Team:

Performers – Larisa Venediktova, Viktoria Zhembrovska, Yana Kolodiychuk, Mariana Matveychuk, Natalia Shynkarenko.

The inability to control the development of events takes away a person’s central position in the world, returning them to their status of potentiality. This status is explored by Tanzlaboratorium and the second-year acting students of the Kyiv Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Arts. The performance is a continuation of the work “The Cruelty of Possibility,” which explored the possibilities of transforming A. Artaud’s ideas into contemporary artistic practice.

 

“There is a mysterious identity of essence between the principles of theater and the fundamentals of alchemy. The fact is that theater, like alchemy, if we consider its principles and secret springs, rests on several foundations that remain the same for all arts – foundations that in the realm of spirit and imagination are aimed at achieving the same effectiveness that in the realm of reality allows one to truly make gold. However, there is also a more sublime similarity between theater and alchemy, which, from a metaphysical point of view, stretches much further. The fact is that alchemy, like theater, is a potential (virtual) art, so to speak – an art that carries neither its purpose nor its reality within itself” (Antonin Artaud).

 

TanzLaboratorium is an independent research collective, based in Kyiv, Ukraine, that views art as life’s process being actualized through performativity. Here, performativity means a particular mode of artistic activity that thematizes temporality. The group’s artistic strategy involves permeating the gaps between contemporary art forms and destructing the linguistic conventions of these forms. In TL’s artistic practice, the body acts as the image author and critical agent for thinking. Physical practice is the primary method of critical analysis, and dance – by investigating its perception – becomes a way of thinking.

 

The presentation took place on December 20, 2022 in Kozlovsky Center.

 

The work was implemented by proto produkciia foundation and funded by the Stabilization Fund for Culture and Education 2022 of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut.