{"id":28038,"date":"2024-04-04T13:51:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T10:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cirks.lv\/?p=28038"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T11:04:18","slug":"28038","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cirks.lv\/en\/news\/28038\/","title":{"rendered":"“AVoid”: Work-in-progress by Marina Cherry"},"content":{"rendered":"

A complex tension between internal and external. A voluntary\u2014albeit subconscious\u2014seclusion \u2013 the work-in-progress by contortionist Marina Cherry, created during the R\u012bgas Cirks Residency Program from April 8 to 13, 2024.<\/p>\n

Photos: HERE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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When: <\/strong>April 12, 7PM<\/p>\n

Where:<\/strong> R\u012bgas cirks (4, Mer\u0137e\u013ca street)<\/p>\n

Age restrictions:<\/strong> 13+<\/p>\n

Duration of the show: <\/strong>25 min (after the performance there will be a conversation with the artist)<\/p>\n

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About the work-in-progress show \u201cAVoid\u201d<\/h3>\n

Created and performed by Marina Cherry with the artistic direction being lead by Brandon Lagaert, AVoid is an interdisciplinary project between acro-dance, contortion, contemporary dance and physical theatre.<\/p>\n

The performance creates unexpected connections between structure and chaos, madness and grace, uncertainty and dependence. Through the flux of personal memory and experience comes a natural evolution to withdraw outside of oneself, in order to connect in a public setting the private workings of an individual.<\/p>\n

Rendering unexpected connections between structure and chaos, madness and austerity, uncertainty and dependence, AVoid pursues the constructs of our personal realities. One individual. Enigmatic multitudes inside.<\/p>\n

Through a use of innovative physicality and characterization, \u2018we\u2019 are immersed in an alternate universe; a desultory evolution; confronting ones fantasies, fears, neuroses: a disruption to conventions, vacillating a meta-public setting the private workings of an individual.<\/p>\n

This project is born from Marina\u2019s fascination with solitude, contradictions, alienation and the impact of rapidly developing society in the face of digitalisation. The common point being the concept hikikomori \u2013 the withdrawal into seclusion, a particular condition in Japanese society where people avoid social contact to an extreme level. Shutting oneself in.<\/p>\n

The foreign.
\nThe stranger.
\nThe grotesque unknown.<\/p>\n

Hikikomori \u2014 “pulling inward, being confined”, also known as severe social withdrawal, is total withdrawal from society and seeking extreme degrees of social isolation and confinement. Hikikomori refers to both the phenomenon in general and the recluses themselves, described as loners or “modern-day hermits”. While the degree of the phenomenon varies on an individual basis, in the most extreme cases, some people remain in isolation for years or even decades.<\/p>\n