WHERE
LILACS
BLOSSOM
MY GARDEN’S BOUNDRIES ARE THE HORIZON
Day after day I returned to my secret garden – the first of many that blossomed in my dreams. Obsessive violets drawing the evening shadows to themselves, our fingers touching in the purple.
(DEREK JARMAN, MODERN NATURE)
Concept: Julia Kosałka in collaboration with Isabela Rossi
Choreography: Julia Kosałka
Performers: Julia Kosałka, Isabela Rossi
Residency : INTER-ACTIONS Heidelberg
Eintanzhouse, Mannheim
Bodies are <going> as well as <arriving> expanding the <almost> familiar, transforming <being lost> into a <familiar feeling>. At what point is a place no longer ours? A process or disorientation or reorientation is a process of re-inhabiting the skin: the different impressions of a new landscape. From a queer perspective, it becomes not only a question of how we <find our way>, but of how we come to <feel at home>.
Drawing from The Garden, a movie by Derek Jarman and his personal Moder Nature, we are looking at a non-palce, a place outside a place, a queer utopia. Purple lilacs, or sypphic violtes have been widely recognized as queer symbols. Not only in the real word- Derek has dreamed it all long before he made his Garden in 1986 in a middle of a desert.
