the afterglow

“the afterglow” was created as a site-specific work for an exhibition at silent green Berlin in January 2024. Based on the idea of an auditory archive of this place, which formerly housed the Wedding crematorium, and the question of which sounds and noises would have accumulated in such an archive over the years, the siblings Luis and Paulina Brunner also deal with their shared memories of deceased family members in this first collaboration.

The result is a constant process of translation between the siblings and between sound and dance, moving and musical body. In their dialogue, the performers negotiate questions of ownership and authorship of memory, using a sensor attached to the dancer's body that, through her movement, increasingly controls the behavior of the sound. As the performance progresses, the flow of information shifts between the sound informing the body and the body informing the sound, both changing the atmosphere of the space.

Growing up together, the siblings Paulina and Luis Brunner share a socio-political and cultural background and a common body of memory, which they articulate and contextualize differently. In their work, they favor obsolete technologies and media of which the fields of application are modified and expanded by contemporary technology. These technologies from the past serve as signifiers for the collective memory, as keys to the individual experiential space of the moving body.

Collaboration with Luis Brunner (idea and sound)
Performance, approx. 15 minutes
Motion sensor, voice recordings from the personal archive, dulcimer
Year: 2024