BAU AIR GREENHOUSE
Ira Melkonyan & Jimmy Grima
06/09 - 04/10
Public Sharing
27/09, 20.00h.
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Committed to being an evolving cast of contributors, artist duo Ira Melkonyan and Jimmy Grima install temporary collaborative structures under the umbrella of the rubberbodies collective.
Ira Melkonyan is an artist and biologist. Through her performances and installations, she explores non-human actants, transitions, fluidity, and liquid boundaries. Ira is from Odesa in Ukraine.
Jimmy Grima is a multidisciplinary artist-researcher and designer. He works in the fields of graphic arts, performance, archival research and film.
The duo met in Malta, Jimmy's birth island. They both graduated with an MA in Theatre from DAS Graduate School (formerly known as DasArts) and currently live in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Blood Thirsty
How much can a person take? Working day in and day out in a laboratory. Between glass tubes, vials and refrigerators, organizing blood. While pandemics spread and wars are fought. Disaster approaches from afar. Strange reflections, desires and visions leak into the regulated routines of a bloodless environment of seemingly hermetic walls and vessels.
With Blood Thirsty, Ira Melkonyan continues her research on the performativity of fluids from a transnational feminist perspective, venturing into what is probably the most metaphorically loaded bodily fluid. Centered on blood and other biological substances as performative agents, this transdisciplinary performance explores the fantasies and mysticism surrounding leaking bodies, political boundaries, and the sense of connection.
Concept, text and performance: Ira Melkonyan
Visual dramaturgy, production and technical design: Jimmy Grima with TinyIsland Studio
Sound design: Isadora Tomasi
Stage direction advise: Biljana Radinoska
A production of the rubberbodies collective
Co-produced with SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Utrecht
With the kind support of VEEM House for Performance, Amsterdam and Arts Council Malta.
www.rubberbodiescollective.com
The development network for dance, mime and performance GREENHOUSE selected Ira Melkonyan for its annual residency.