Corporal Espionage began as an exploration of desire and manifests as a mission to uncover the self-conspiracy to know a body beyond the usual identifications. It departs from the organic approach of understanding a body through anatomical weapons and gravitational conflict. I go undercover in an investigation that fragments my self-perception and feeds on my doubts and dysmorphias. I will endure the lingering frustration of having two pairs of limbs desperately attached to the torso. The mission demands that I reject the binary truths of left and right, the spatial notions of up and down and the volumetric constraints of front and back. I will calculate combinations of directions and deem them meaningless until the body itself offers new definitions. I shift shapes to get to the bottom of this performance and allow references to create meanings I did not intend to portray.

The call is coming from inside the house!

 Premiere: 27th of June, 2024, Španski borci, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Concept and performance: Alja Branc
Outside eye: Jan Rozman
 Music and sound design: Sahareya
Light design: Veronika Hana Grubič
Technical support: Omar Izmail (CK Španski borci)
Promo photos: Iva Suhadolnik Gregorin
Photo documentation: Nada Žgank
Video documentation: Luka Prinčič
Executive production: Sabrina Železnik

Support

Production: Emanat
Co-organisation: Center kulture Španski borci
Financial support: Slovenian Ministry of Culture and City of Ljubljana