danced stances , Juli Sando, lisa laurent, Marie Popall, Tyra Wigg
yet the easiest to overlook
Choréopolice/Choréopolitique: Histoires, traces et activations d’une politique du mouvement dans le Grand Genève Video installation, performances and discussion
yet the easiest to overlook is a performed documentary. Constructed from over 500 minutes of workshop footage, it transforms this material into an exercise in architectural rehearsal: a collective practice of inhabiting the in-between spaces of sites destined to disappear. Situated within the choreography of imminent destruction that characterises contemporary urban transformation, the film explores the paradox at the heart of the overlooked: places that are highly visible yet rendered invisible through collective indifference.
Drawing on a transdisciplinary research project into “choreopolicing” and “choreopolitics”—the violent regulation of movement and presence, and the collective practices that resist and undo it—as well as on the concept of survivance, the work brings together gestures, traces and overlapping temporalities. It asks: What happens when bodies repeatedly occupy places they are expected to ignore? At what point does attention itself become an act of resistance?
The film unfolds as a performed reading, in which voice, quotation and documentary montage weave together repurposed images into a trans-temporal narrative exploring spatial control, bodily autonomy and the politics of forgetting.
Distribution
Film essay, screening and sound installation
A film by: danced stances & Juli Sando
Editing: Juli Sando with danced stances
Cinematography: Juli Sando, Nathalie Berger
Sound design and colour grading: Juli Sando
Featuring: Aurélie Dupuis, Mélissa Guex, lisa laurent, Zoé Lefèvre, Marie Popall, Emma Saba, Catol Teixeira and Tyra Wigg
Developed from research undertaken for Choréopolice/Choréopolitique
Production: association danced stances and Arta Sperto / DFTL
With the support of the Contemporary Art Production Fund of the Canton of Geneva (FCAC).


