Shit (...) I Forgot (...) Again (...) (2025)
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Shit (...) I Forgot (...) Again (...) explores the social calibration of collective memory. The performers search for contact and overlap, but these connections are fleeting or illusory. Through this, I examine the fragility and subjectivity of memory—the urge to find shared realities, and the simultaneous impossibility of holding onto them. Audience position and perspective play a crucial role in shaping the experience.
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Performance in two variations: evening length (40 min duration) or as ongoing interventions
Shit (...) I Forgot (...) Again (...) explores the social calibration of collective memory. The performers search for contact and overlap, but these connections are fleeting or illusory. Through this, I examine the fragility and subjectivity of memory—the urge to find shared realities, and the simultaneous impossibility of holding onto them. Audience position and perspective play a crucial role in shaping the experience.
Multiperspectivity, gaps, and fragmentation lie at the core of the work, exposing memory’s mechanisms and hierarchies. Intimate gestures—an embrace, a hand reaching out—become bodily entry points into broader societal structures.
The work exists in two variatons, as evening length performance with a duration of 40-minutes and 4 performers and as durational performative interventions, engaging with the notion of “gray zones”. It premiered in April 2025 at Zirka München, and was shown in the context of DANCE Festival Munich at Haus der Kunst in May 2025.
Gestures are fragmented and spatially dispersed, often obscured by architecture. From some angles, performers seem to touch; from others, gaps appear. The choreography plays with illusion and absence—using the space between bodies as a meaningful site. Some movements remain incomplete or only partially visible, becoming choreographic absences: non-actions that invite completion through the viewer’s imagination.
Audience perspective is key. Each viewer experiences a different version of the work, shaped by where they stand, how they move, and how long they remain. What appears as touch from one vantage point reveals itself as illusion from another. This interaction invites the audience to co-construct meaning, but also power —to decide what is seen and what is not. The space in between, the lacking, the violence of forgetting that is unavoidable, yet full of potential.
from Carla Vollmers
with Pierre-Yves Delannoy, Aurora Molinari, Lee Kern, Carla Vollmers at Zirka
with Aurora Molinari, Lee Kern, Zahra Ghadimianazar, Mengzhen Liao, Barbara-Rosa Siévi, Josefine Simonsen, Carla Vollmers at DANCE Festival Munich 2025
with a track by Jackie Donie
