16.6. 18:45

Live-Performance und Film
Ariathney Coyne (*1994, GR),
Daniela Hanelová (*1995, CZ)

Esoptron, Ancient Greek for mirror, is an experimental performative installation reflecting on the necessity for physical connection and its absence during the COVID-19 pandemic. How has our loss of contact with others changed our sense of time and space? Confronted with the vacuum between the physical and virtual presence of someone else, our installation explores the importance of closeness and touch.

Masken: Aleks Kaplun
Filmlicht und Editing: Philip Steiner
Kamera: Daniel Bierdümpfl

Daniela Hanelová is a Czech dancer and performer with an interest in the genre of screendance. Trained in classical ballet and modern dance techniques at Prague Dance Conservatory, she has been dancing with The Bohemia Ballet and The Ballet of The Moravian Theatre Olomouc, and in parallel continued her studies in dance and physical theatre at The Janacek Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic. She is currently a MA student of Movement Research at Anton Bruckner University in Linz. Directed screendance works: As The Riversides (2018, 40North Dance Film Festival California, Dance Film Festival Prague), skizzenbuch (2020, Mexico City Videodance Festival, InShadow Festival Lisbon).

Ariathney is a performer, researcher and small-things enthusiast. Her artistic career began in dance, while her academic career started in neuroscience. To satisfy her interest in both art and science she is now completing her MA in Movement Research at Anton Bruckner University and is rediscovering her love for technology within her BA in Time-based and Interactive Media Art at the Art University of Linz. In her spare time, she plants tomatoes and practices handstands.