Residenz #4

Residency #4: 18.–30.11.2024

As part of TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, Tanznetz Freiburg is enabling another full-time choreographic residency in cooperation with E-WERK Freiburg. Professional dance professionals from Freiburg can dedicate themselves to an artistic research project of their choice, at any stage. Part-time research is possible by arrangement.

For residency #4, entitled working bodies, the artist Zina Vaessen and her team are researching artistic approaches for a film series on the subject of work. The film series focuses on the question of what professional work means for the bodies of different people, how work inscribes itself into the bodies and imaginations of the interviewees and what individuals define as work in the first place. This is set against the backdrop of computer technology doing more and more of the work for us and posing the question of what our work might look like in the future.

For Zina Vaessen, work is always associated with securing our livelihood and with the deeply human need to (co-)shape the world. We always experience the associated hopes, visions, instincts, but also fears and paradoxes physically. Questions about the meaning and value of work are therefore always physical questions for her. In the planned video series, she is developing a short dance portrait with people from various professional fields, from which a longer video series will then emerge. The film series deals with that which cannot be replaced by any machine, the effect of compassion, passion and intuition, but also the accidental - that which we perhaps do not have at our direct disposal, that which we cannot really pay for and cannot produce artificially.