Uncertainty Shifting Through Muscle / Losing Balance
Shaped by air, three pairs of wings made of undulating soft material form an installation in the Agora. Carrying the wings, three performers embody the sculptures, representing angels in conversation who explore their celestial yearnings and transforming bodies.
The core of Uncertainty Shifting Through Muscle / Losing Balance is a poem based on the collectively archived material history in queer bodies, and the fictional narrative is influenced by the methodologies outlined in the book Cruising Utopia, by author José Esteban Muñoz: “Bonded to the earth’s surface, our queer body matter comes into conflict with understandings of time and space. Feeling this lack of belonging, we continue to dream, seeking new practices of kinship and being. As we learn to resist gravity, our bodies dissolve in the sky and angels arise”.
Artists’ statement
Growing up as a queer person and/or with a queer body often includes the experience of “feeling different” in spaces of friendship, love, family, reproduction, and death. The marginalized and often criminalized history of the queer community causes a feeling of not belonging in space and not sharing the same present and future.
Bio
Born in 1999 in Germany, Clara Mannott are a visual artist. They have been studying at HBK Braunschweig since 2018, under Professors Corinna Schnitt and Donna Kukama, and at HGB Leipzig and Ecole Arts Déco Paris. Based on sculpture and performance, their practice follows speculative narratives, reimagining concepts of human matter.
