Jaskaran Anand
L-INKED / THE SOLO
Labelled–unlabelled, boxed–not boxed, white & black, male & female, correct–incorrect; L-INKED/THE SOLO investigates the act of conscious and unconscious labelling to prejudice and stereotype people beyond their identity due to a lack of knowledge of expressions and words. This sensual piece celebrates the uniqueness of every single human being as it unleashes our craving and calls on us to abandon restrictions, shame, and self-hatred that leads to the de-harmonisation of any human self.
The transdisciplinary solo performanceL-INKED/THE SOLO is set between fictional and real scenarios, where choreographer and performing artist Jaskaran Anand challenges the complex reality of a predetermined, sexualised human body by examining bodily desires between learned seductions and moments of glitch(es) and trance. The performance reflects upon desire as a formless entity and questions the long-term existing duality of body and psyche, showing us the limits of our thinking in opposites and stereotypes.
L-INKED/THE SOLO opens a reflection-based space where Jaskaran Anand transforms into various iconographies of the ‘shakti’ (energy) while questioning whether different kinds of human bodies may also be iconographies of shakti? He further investigates the pre-defined notions of ‘shakti’ when human bodies interact with each other. This is part of his long-term transcultural and social research project L-INKED, which unfolds the intersections between social, political, and cultural understandings of bodily intimacy and relationship-formation identified via sexuality, love, desire, and gender.
Jaskaran Anand was born in New Delhi, India, and has been living in Linz, Austria, since 2015. He is an internationally acclaimed performance artist who works as a director, dancer-choreographer, teacher, researcher, and video dramaturge-editor. His works are trans-disciplinary interventions based on intersections between performative, scientific and art-based research, and participatory-collaborative artistic practices using choreography and dance as methods of communication in and beyond traditional art and public spaces. Jaskaran Anand looks at the intersection in different depths of artistic media with a focus on the human body acting as an inter-/intra-face. His works, interviews, and talks have been presented across Austria, Slovenia, the United States, New Zealand, and India. www.jaskarananand.com
The Performance on March 9th will be followed by an artist talk.
Credits
Concept, Direction, Choreography, Performance-artist, Costumes Jaskaran Anand Dramaturgy in cooperation with Robert Steijn Text Jaskaran Anand in collaboration with excerpts from interviews and discussions Voices Karin Harrasser, Karen Schlimp, Madhavi Menon, Robert Steijn, Alice Moe, various social media references Stage Design in Collaboration with Indiara di Benedetto and Aleksandra Mitic Video recording and editing Jaskaran Anand and Indiara di Benedetto Video technics and Light Dario Stefanek, Thomas Planitzer Sound technics Sebastian Wasner Music RENU – Renu Hossain (Songs: “Beginning”, “1984”, “Urge & Urge & Urge”) / Britney Spears – “Baby one more time”, Robin Thicke – “Blurred Lines” ft. T.I. and Pharell Williams, The Piano Guys – “Michael meets Mozart”, Soap&Skin – “What a wonderful World”, Smith & Burrows – “Wonderful life” Animation Data Research in collaboration with Sandra Alvaro Binary-words-binary-program by Chanpreet Kaur Editorial booklet text Flora Löffelmann, Karin Schneider, Lucia Rossi PR and Marketing assistance Lucia Rossi Production assistance Aleksandra Mitic and Elisa Frey
A co-production by imagetanz / brut Wien, Jaskaran Anand, and trivium With kind support of RedSapata Tanzfabrik with further cooperation with Holy kuti Records. A big thank you to Land Kultur OÖ, the team of imagetanz / brut Wien, Flori Gugger, Kira Kirsch, Annika Strassmair, Elisa Frey, Michael Raab, Philipp Schäfer, Liz King / D.ID Dance Identity, Kulturzentrum Eisenstadt, Altered Affairs, VALIE EXPORT CENTER LINZ, Kunstuniversität Linz, Sumi Anand, and the team of the production L-INKED.
Dates & Tickets
The Performance on March 9th will be followed by an artist talk.
March 2022
€ 18 / € 14 / € 9
€ 18 / € 14 / € 9 *The Performance on March 9th will be followed by an artist talk.
€ 18 / € 14 / € 9
studio brut
Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Downloads
imagetanz 2022 Programmfolder (PDF)
Evening programme Jaskaran Anand (PDF)
