(Without Words) Stone Fruits and Ghosts, 2014 © Anderwald + Grond
Excerpt of the concert Instruction for Use at Musikfestival Rottweil, Germany.
– See also Instruction for Use.
Words exist because of meaning.
The carousel – an object of yearning from childhood days. Once in motion, its centrifugal force elicited screams of joy.
Sound, growling behind the door, an unknown source of noise, the seduction growing, my whole body anticipating total surrender.
Today, I am going to lay out some ideas that build on many different aesthetic performances and practices involving trans bodies and that search for and produce new vocabularies for discussing transness and new deployments of transness for the project of dismantling world and worldedness as concepts that hold current political realities in place.
“As agents of confusion you precede the agents of change”, claims the hermaphrodite being ‘Dizziness’ in Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond’s film.
The blurring of art’s boundaries enables it to cross-pollinate and conquer new territories.
