RED
Date:
Mon, 11/04/2019 - 9:30am - Fri, 12/13/2019 - 5:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Lobby
Event Type:
Other The exhibition will run between November 4 - December 13 in the CCRMA Lobby. Our building is open to the public weekdays during regular business hours (9am-5pm).
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RED (2018/2019)
music video, 8'02"
Sarah Nemtsov – idea, concept, composition
Heinrich Horwitz – concept, dramaturgy, choreography
Carola Schaal – performance, clarinet
David Campesino and Javier Sobremazas – cinematography−·−· −·−· ·−· −− ·−
In 2015, I read about the London drummer Kiran Gandhi: for a year she had been training for the marathon, on the day of the marathon set her period. She decided against tampon or similar. and ran the marathon – without hiding the bleeding. Their action met with protest and approval and triggered discussions. Of course, this was not the beginning of these discussions and the topic is global – stigma, taboo, marginalization, impurity, period poverty, and recent movements like [hashtag] free bleeding, happy to bleed or padsagainstsexism, as well as scientific education.
Female menstruation in RED is a metaphor for hidden pain – whatever gender, culture, or generation. Thus, RED is not only written for or about women, but means much (and many) more. A call for empathy – empathy in the sense of the recognition of the other and recognition of the other’s (and own) pain. RED wants to sensitize, alert, and contribute to empowerment.
RED was created in close collaboration with the artists Heinrich Horwitz, Carola Schaal, David Campesino, and Javier Sobremazas to whom I am deeply grateful. I cannot thank you enough! Thank you for your courage, artistry, ideas, thoughts, discussions, friendship, time and trust.
Sarah Nemtsov
FREE
Open to the Public