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CLOSENESS OF TOUCH

November 7, 2022

Historical event · 2022/11/18 · YCC Gallery

  • stage: MKC Gallery

Igor Koruga, Stanica center (RS)

Choreography, performance, video, text: Igor Koruga

Dramaturgy: Ana Dubljević
Costume design: Maja Mirković
Production: Station Service for contemporary dance Belgrade
Co-production: Cultural center Belgrade & KC Magacin
Photography: Vladimir Opsenica
Video documentation: ​Milos Janjic


In recent years, during the global pandemic or any other crisis around the world, various physical mobility and collective vulnerabilities based on asymmetric positions, obligations, interests, and reflections of their actors, have become more visible in public space. In the context of constant (digital) surveillance of almost all our mobility and vulnerabilities, this work explores how to touch the body that touches the screen. It points to the closeness of touch, which consists of the capability to provide response-ability: not from keeping a distance and staying out of the world, but rather from dealing directly with the world. This work applies the specific kinetic and choreographic language extracted from different principles of socio-political co-existence as a form of resistance to today’s pervasive capitalist realism.

A WORK DERIVED FROM LONG-TERM ART RESEARCH THEORETICAL DISCOURSES ABOUT CARE, IMMUNITY AND NEGATIVE FEELINGS THROUGH CHOREOGRAPHY.