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Volatile moments for a different future
© Chris Waikiki, © Ahmed el Gendy, 2023 of Volatile moments for a different future by © Navina Neverla
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The site-sensitive performance installation invites the audience to co-create the work. It investigates water and plastic with focus on a sustainable development. Funded by Otto Mauer Fonds. Artistic research in the context of ATLAS ImPulsTanz, 2023. Presented at Peace Wave Festival, 2024, Wien. Further research and work-in-progress at Museu da Agua (Water museum), Lisbon, PT.
Fotos by Ahmed el Gendy of Volatile moments for a different future by © Navina Neverla
Respiratory Protection 2045 [step two]
The site-sensitive multidisciplinary art (2022) project investigates digital surveillance and an increased digitization of our society on a global scale and local scale and questions its effects on the body and sociopolitical consequences for each individual. It consists of several performative situations inviting the
Fotocredits: Sofia Galogaza & Leo Severin Schönwald, 2022
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audience for participation and addressing their own agency by leaving gaps for the viewer to fill in with their own associations. From a Quarantine workout in front of mumok , to a dystopic scenario in front of Leopold museum with headphones, from cyborg to android at Platz der Menschenrechte, the surveilled body, a tarot oracle reading; both at Raum D / Q21, the spectator is guided or rather left alone to assume its responsibility as spectator and citizen. Moreover, the analogue photographic vernissage by © Navina Neverla in Raum D / Q21 on 25th of June 2022 and rounded up the art event. The same program was presented on the 26th of June 2022 in the 15th district Vienna at Henriettenplatz and AA collections gallery.
Fotocredits: Sofia Galogaza
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Fotocredits: Sofia Galogaza at 15th. district Vienna
Artistic concept & creation: © Navina Neverla
Production: MovingImageMovingBody
Performance / Dance: Alina Bertha, Navina Neverla, Verena Schneider
Photography / Visual Art: Navina Neverla
Text: Lakshmi Chellani / © MovingImageMovingBody
Sound-Art: Marcos Rondon aka Hekura Records
Photographic documentation: Sofia Galogaza & Leo Severin Schönwald
Project Coordination: Andrea Munninger & Navina Neverla
PR / Press: Marschalek Art Management
Sound Technician: Julius Prettenthaler
Video Documentation: Milos Vucicevic
Funded through Crowdfunding on wemakeit, MA 7 Stadtteilkultur & Interkulturalität, 15th. district council Vienna, GR Consult Munich, Kunstfreunde Wien, Huggy Bears, AA collections gallery.
Thanks to MQ Wien, Q 21 / Raum D, TanzQuartier Wien, Laura Clery for the inspiration / her Quarentine workout, and much gratitude also to all our private sponsors. #shemakesit #wemadeit
Videolink: https://vimeo.com/782586139
Press: https://theuncoiled.com/2022/07/15/respiratory-project-2045-step-2-a-performance-project-by-navinaneverla/
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Atemschutz 2045 [step 1]
Fotocredits: Sofia Galogaza, December 2022 at Raw Matters, Vienna
@ Raw Matters @ LE STUDIO Film & Bühne Wien, 2021
Dance / Performance: Desi Bonato & Navina Neverla
Sound Artist: Marcos Rondon aka Hekura Records
Tarot Oracle Reading: Soraya Emery
Photographic documentation: Sofia Galogaza
Production: Andrea Munninger / MovingImageMovingBody
Thanks to Huggy Bears
Videolink: https://vimeo.com/656757364
Atemschutz 2045 is an artistic research, in the form of a performance that invites the audience to participate and asks each of us activate their agency in a societal context. The work investigates scenarios of digital surveillance and control and questions around social distancing. Questions at stake are: How can we as a global society continue to function in a healthy way. Must we not start to envision the world more holistically to realize the "healing" of our planet? The work never aims to give answers but rather channel collective energies and raise questions in order to manifest reflection and thus a different reality.
Respiratory Protection 2045
Performance-Installation, work-in-progress, 2020 [with focus on audience participation and site]
Foto by Alipio Padilha of Anna Prokopová in © Navina Neverla's Respiratory Protection 2045 @ Espaço Alkantara 2020
Foto by Honevo_Art "Bionic Temple"
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Project description
The first phase of this artistic research investigates digital surveillance and social Dis-dancing in the context of the Pandemic. The first phenomena has become more visible while the latter is a completely new phenomena. Aesthetically the work is a performance installation with audience participation with a strong relation to site and investigation of public or semi-public spaces.
Video-Documentation
Bionic Dance Festival 2020: https://vimeo.com/486021915
Espaço Alkantara 2020: https://vimeo.com/487318217
Presented
@ Espaço Alkantara, Lisbon in the context of Moving (Re)Union Festival #strictlyworkinprogress 2020
@ Bionic Festival 2020
@ Raw Matters Vienna 2021
@ Artistic residency: Huggy Bears, Vienna, 2021
Prizes
3rd. Prize at Bionic Dance Festival 2020 [Madrid/ Lisbon] for the site-specific online Version
Funding
"Einmaliges Arbeitsstipendium der Stadt Wien aufgrund von Covid-19" [MA7]
Austrian Embassy Lisbon [BMEIA]
Credits
Artistic concept & Creation: Navina Neverla
Texts: Lakshmi Chellani
Performance: Anna Prokopová, Navina Neverla, Desi Bonato, Soraya Emery
Visual Art / Photography: Navina Neverla
Sound Art: Marcos Rondon aka Hekura Records
Stage Management: Vasco Mosá
Fotodocumentation: Sofia Galogaza & Alipio Padilha
Production: Andrea Munninger / MovingImageMovingBody
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Whose dreams do you follow
Performance intervention in public space, Hamburg 2019
Fotocredit: © Maria Hone / Videoscreenshot
Project description
I symbolically burned the project applications for all unrealized art projects that would otherwise have been dimmed in drawers or folders.
How important is art and how much art do we need it in our society?
Video documentation
https://vimeo.com/378250846/3b607afc9d
Press
https://bit.ly/3snVe0Z
Tidenet.de / Radio & TV Interview / Cosmossimo - Die Kunst vom HörenSagen
Credits
Performance from & with Navina Neverla
Video documentation of the Performance intervention by Maria Hone
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I SEE YOU_YOU SEE ME [step 2]
Performance in three situations, 2019
Project description
This project is a further development I SEE YOU_YOU SEE ME [step 1] in collaboration with Anna Prokopová .
Video documentation
https://vimeo.com/346887066
Presented
@ RAW MATTERS Vienna
With the friendly support of Arbeitsplatz Wien.
Credits
Artistic creation: Navina Neverla
Anna Prokopová (Dance)
Vasco Mósa (Lights, Stage Management)
Fotos by © Navina Neverla of Anna Prokopová @ Raw Matters Wien
I SEE YOU_YOU SEE ME [step 1]
Performance in 3 situations, 2019
Fotocredit: © Daniel Worm , Catarina Marcos, Fernando Matos de Oliveira
Project description
The project investigates the concept of identities fluctuating between cultures, while exploring liminality and in-between spacial concepts.
Questions at stake are: Who is seeing what and why? Where is the line between you and me? How ambiguous is the limit between kitsch and reality? Within a performance composed of three immersive situations in which the viewer is guided or rather left alone to assume responsibility as spectator and human being.
Video documentation
https://vimeo.com/266725990
Hyperlink / Manifesto
https://cargocollective.com/howtobelong
Performance description
I SEE YOU_YOU SEE ME is composed of three immersive situations, each strongly related to the specific space where it happens. None of the situations take place in a traditional theatre setting and the spectators are invited to participate in the event.
1st. Situation: ‘The Abuse’
The first situation is a body installation: the body of a woman lying on the floor with signs that say: “Utilise me” | “Define me” and some objects.
2nd. Situation: ‘The Empowerment’
The second situation will address the visions of the persona Lakshmi Chellani, an expert in Kathak and the empowerment dancer singing Gloria Gaynor “I am what I am”.
The research in this phase consists in looking a ‘Indian’ traditional dancer of Kathak (North Indian classical dance, that I had to learn during my childhood), investigating how the specific movements, facial expressions and gestures of this Indian dance resonate in the body. The question is: How culture is inscribed in the body?
The next situation deals with questions of kitsch and mainstream, stereotypes, clichés, reality and fiction. It´s call empowerment, as it states I AM WHAT I AM.
3rd. Situation: ‘The Healing’
Is an appropriation, a healing session, a guided shamanic meditation: Chakra visualization with colours, followed by a meal of shared Indian food. The Song lyrics from Tim Maia are: “Love is really the answer” What happens if you place a spiritual guided session into an artistic context?
Press
Patricia Portela @ coffeepaste.pt:
“Navina Neverla evokes her alter ego Lakshmi Chellani, a specialist in Kathak and ritualistic practices of altered states of consciousness, guiding us to her own peculiar world, where irony and sincerity touch in a discourse, that provokes, questions and challenges both political at the same time ritualistic positions. (..) Via a sequence of events or moments that occupy different spaces, asking the audience for their complete engagement, including disobedience. Without fear, Navina takes us to an unknown place, a supreme relation between art and its reader."
Context
Developed in the context of PACAP 1 @ Forum Dança, Lisbon.
Mentoring: Manoel Barbosa, Vânia Rovisco, Miguel Bonneville, Jõao Fiadeiro, Nuno Lucas, Sónia Baptisa, Sofia
Dias & Vitor Roriz, Rui Horta, Carsten Rabe.
Presented
@ Premiere: Rua das Gaivotas 6
@ TAGV Coimbra
@ Galeria O Banco
@ MOM ART SPACE, Galerie im Gängeviertel
@ Galeria Zaratan
@ Espaço do Tempo
Credits
Artistic creation & performance: Navina Neverla
With the friendly support Espaço do Tempo, Atelier Real, O Rumo do Fumo, Largo Residencias & Eira.
Sauerbrunn – Hold onto Freedom
Immersive Multimedia Installation, 2016
“How to build a swing out of memories? How to transcend? How to surrender? How to not accelerate? How to fly while staying grounded? How to grow roots? How to swim the currents? How to find the exact moment for taking off? How to ride the wave without drowning? How to master the art of self-control while enjoying the ride, up and down the wave of life‘s emotions? How to not swing inside the painting on the wall? How to stay focused? How to allow him to take a lead, whilst staying free? How to leave? How to love? How to eat the chocolate cake without falling sick? How to land smoothly? How to fly? How to heal [others]? Freshness, coolness, wind, shade, rain - they come to nurture the earth with new life? Without water, no life possible? Without fire, no rebirth? Without wind, no freshness? Without air, no flight? without earth, no roots?“
Project description
Its focus lies on memory and impermanence and it has been presented as a participatory multimedia and installation event engaging with all the senses of the audience.
The third, current research project “How to Create a Swing out of Memories“ focuses on the ideas around cultural hybridity, nomadism and alienation. What happens when home cannot any longer defined through a specific place but is rather a concept that is transitory and fluctuant? What are the consequences that come along with a hybrid identity and a transitional concept of home? How can or shall this be reflected in an artistic practice?
Fotocredit: © Murilo Henriques
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Video documentation
Link to installation https://vimeo.com/191047829
Film as part of the project https://vimeo.com/189161027/a5d6156b74
Presented
@ AADK Centro Nedra | Espácio de Investigación y Creación Contemporánea in Murcia, Spain 2016, inviting the spectator to indulge into the experience with all 5 senses.
Sauerbrunn - a farewell from paradise was realized in 2016, which is part of the immersive multimedia installation. The super8 shortfilm has been presented:
@ Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
@ Cannes Short Film Corner
Credits
Immersive Installation
In collaboration with Sound Artist Pablo Jordan.
Mentoring: Victor Jorge, Prof. Ar.Co Centro de Arte e Communicação Cinema Imagem Movimento
Carlos Garcia-Alix, Larga Marcha Arte y Ediciones Madrid
Abraham Hurtado & Elena Azzedin, AADK Spain
Experimental short film
Concept, Direction & Camera: Navina Neverla with: Irene Neverla & Navina Neverla
Editing: Marcos Rojos
Sounddesign & Fine editing: Pablo Jordan
Voice & Text 1: Irene Neverla
Voice over text two: Navina Neverla from Karl Ludikovski
Sound Field Recordings: Bernhard Hetzenauer
Producer: Navina Neverla
Producer Assistant: Virginia Cromie
Production: Larga Marcha Arte y Ediciones Madrid by Carlos Garcia-Alix, MovingImageMovingBody & Crowdfunding
Project funding:
Crowdfunding on Indiegogo
Larga Marcha Arte y Ediciones, Madrid
Art workers won’t kiss ass
Site-specific solo performance intervention, 2016
Fotocredit: © Nuno Trindade
Project description
The work references and revisits a performance by the Art Workers Coalition from 1969 [AWC]. The aim of the conceptual/minimalist work of [Art Workers Coalition] was the institutional critique of art institutions; galleries and museums as well as their relationship to the art market. What has changed since 1969 – which economic systems within the art market remain the same?
Art workers won't kiss ass - 2016 Edition aims to investigate the socially constructed borders between inside & outside, between private & public between the artist’s body and the art market.
Video documentation
https://vimeo.com/189837903
Presented
@ Deichtorhallen im Rahmen von DanceKiosk Festival 48 hours Nomads
@ Galeria Bessa Artes Lisbon
@ Espaço Alkantara 2017 in the context of Pá! - Gabinete de Curiosidades Performáticas
Piecing together - Tracing & Tracking the Void
Site-specific happening with audience participation, 2014
Fotocredit: © Tom Green
“Minimal, just feel the energy. Very concentrated, at peace. Surrendering into stillness. Now ready to be present, open and curious.”
Project description
Performance installation with sound artist Lugh O' Neill in London within the Master in Creative Practice: The Dance Professional Practice Pathway at Trinity Laban/ Independent Dance 2014 – this research explores the relationship between a personal versus a shared space, inside and outside and investigates the shamanic ritual and participatory happening in a site-specific context.
Video documentation
https://vimeo.com/116382631
Presented
@ site-specific in front of the Trinity Laban building, Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK
Credits
In collaboration with the performers: Serenella Martufi, Lucy Paffard, Claire Ridge, Ariadne Mikou Sound Artist: Lugh O’Neill
Gedankenspiegel [step 2]
Choreography / Performance installation, 2012
Fotocredit: © Marco Kasang
Project description
This project’s aim is to dissolve the structural unities [Film] Moving Image and [Dance] Moving Body in order to merge them. What does Film [Moving Image] stand for? What does Dance [Moving Body] represent? What is it that a camera incorporates? What does the human body represent? The basic principle of my current work is the assumption that both means of expression subsist on MOVEMENT. While [Film] exists due to the movement of images, [Dance] lives on the movement of the body.
Video documentation
https://vimeo.com/49920263
Credits
Artistic creation: Navina Neverla
Dance: Julia Hehlke
Camera: Max Knauer
Camera Assistenz: Konstantin Wolkenstein
Mentoring: Birgit Dunkel alias Bibi Dark
Editing: Siegfried Hamm
Stage Swen: Erik Scheuerling
Sound: Arm Tavornmas
Stage Light and Sound: Jonas Rüggeberg
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Graphic design: Flyer Anja Winterhalter
Production Assistance: Siegfried Hamm
Documentation: Camera Marco Kasang, Marina Minderlen Thanks to Studio Hamburg. Shot on 16mm Film.
Project funding
Financed by the Ministry of Culture Hamburg, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and Rudolf Augstein Stiftung.
Presented
@ Fleetstreet Hamburg June/July 2012
Gedankenspiegel [Step 1]
Dance video installation, projected onto four walls, 2011
Fotocredit: ©
Project description
The conceptual aim of this project was to deconstruct the media film and dance in order to merge them into a new context. The categories were: reality versus fiction, subjective camera (go pro) versus objective camera and the question where the line between every day movements and contemporary dance is.
Video documentation
Trailer of video installation: https://vimeo.com/32866650
Film as part of installation: https://vimeo.com/127412449
Presented
@ Gängeviertel "Tanz in den Gängen" Festival Hamburg 2011
@ DanceKiosk Hamburg 2012
@ K3 Zentrum für Choreographie Tanzplan Hamburg, Trial Stage One 2011
Credits
Artistic creation: Navina Neverla
Dance: Veronique Langlott
Camera: Navina Neverla
Mentoring: Lene Markusen, Thanks to Barbara Schmidt-Rohr, Tanzinitiative Hamburg
Editing: Navina Neverla & Siegfried Hamm
Nuno de Almeida e Silva
Los 4 elementos
4 elementos - Videoinstallation shot on super 8 on shamanism and seaturtles in Mexico, 2012 stills of
The experimental short film / videoinstallation, shot on super 8, was shot in Quintana Roo Mexico by Navina Neverla, 2012 with the support of HFBK Hamburg and Centro Ecologico Akumal. The work investigates shamanism and the 4 elements: fire, water, earth and wind, with focus on the ocean and its seaturtles.
Los
super8 filmmaterial © Navina Neverla
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Moveo ergo sum
Essayistic documentary, 2010 super8 b/w & HDV colour | 4:3 | 10min.
Film-Still Moveo ergo sum © Navina Neverla
"In her essayistic documentary Navina Neverla investigates via poetic images and a calm and precise cinematography, through a polyphony of voices the healing effect of movement on the human soul." [Udo Engel, Prof. Visual Communication, HFBK Academy of fine Arts, Hamburg]
The work was financed by Hamburg's Swimming Association. With the friendly support of K3 Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg & Kampnagel Hamburg
@ Kampnagel Internationales Zentrum für schönere Künste at Cultural Swimming Festival
@ Go East Filmfestival Wiesbaden
@ ISAFF Open Cinema St. Petersburg in the competition of the non-fictional category
@ Filmfestival Recontres Henri Langlois Poitiers, France
@ Arsenals Filmfestival warm up 'Laba daba', Latvia
@ TIDE TV Hamburg
@ Final Cut at Metropolis Cinema Hamburg @Shortcutz Lisboa
@ Temps D‘Image Festival Lisbon 2019