Olia Sosnovskaya

 

 

The video records a PowerPoint presentation for imaginary lecture-performance. Various texts — footnotes, tables of contents, quotes, personal writings — and movement notations of protest marches’ routes and gymnastic exercises are superimposed into glitchy special effects of the PowerPoint interface. In so the work reflects on the relation between language, movement and affect, on spectacularity and opacity of political action and knowledge production. It also departs from the idea that language is already part of the experience — as theory, as political and media speech, as accounts, memories and knowledge that stay and circulate. That after the shared embodied experience of revolution, now being dispersed in exile, in prisons or in the impossibility to mobilise, our bodies are connected through memories, imaginaries and language, in the mismatching synchronicity of movement, reading and writing.