Lands of Concert
By Jija Sohn
In a harsh world of armour and exteriors, Jija Sohn is heading for radical intimacy. Wherever she goes, she breaks down walls, reverses or nullifies power relations. Together with visual artist/choreographer Andrea Zavala Folache and performer/singer Lucy Wilke, Jija creates with Lands of Concert a cross over between performance and workshop, a living practice in which three makers/performers are determined to search together with their audiences beyond contradictions and entrenched polarised positions.
Through imagination and the invitation to experience their own and everyone else's presence as completely natural, they make space for ways to listen more deeply to the body. In interplay, they attempt to lift each action above itself.'What exactly does each specific body need?', 'What attention does it require?' In their presence, letting a utopian space emerge turns out to be for everyone.
From the fact of their own physical capabilities, Jija, Andrea and Lucy each so create their own protocol for giving and following directions in movement, music and word. Like their countries of origin, those abilities vary widely. The unobtrusive way in which the physical disability of one of them becomes part of the event is disarming and groundbreaking. Together with their audience, they find new patterns of thinking and redefine their own position, that of the other and that of the body as a form of limitation.
