Melissa Tun Tun mit Chloé Tun Tun: Echoes (18.33 – 19.32)

Concept of the performance:What information does the flesh contain? How do bodies disclose lived experience? In «Echoes», Chloé and Melissa Tun Tun explore the subtleties of sisterhood and female solidarity in everyday acts and simple gestures. The performance is a poetic intervention, a rejection of individuation, and a celebration of dissemblance and alliance.
Within a soundscape and a scenography designed to rhythm their encounter, Chloé and Melissa Tun Tun engage in a choreographic improvisation à quatre mains and delve into the intricacies of mutuality.

Melissa Tun Tun works across performance, sound, and text. Her practice operates as a rehearsal for defamiliarizing the body to the spatial predicament of normative structures. Her methodology involves multi-disciplinary collaborative research and collective writing and often translates in the staging of intimate situations playfully questioning one’s sense of agency. Melissa Tun Tun is based in Geneva and is actually a resident at the Cité International des Arts in Paris. Recent projects include: Radio Juju #VI: Volante, WORM UBIK, Rotterdam, Speciation, Gelatine Festival, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, VITAL, TU- Théâtre de l’Usine, Geneva (both 2019), SF Biophony: Hope for a better partitioning, Bourses, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, and Raising in Waves, Pomada 8 Queer Festival, Eden, Warsaw (both 2018). http://vitalpraxis.agency

Chloé Tun Tun is an independent professional photographer and artist living and working in the UK. She is the co-founder of Maison Moiré, a women-led post-production studio based in London. Tun Tun studied visual communication at ECAL (BA, 2012) where she developed her interest in documentary language, still life and landscapes. In 2014, ACME published her documentary photographic journal Last time Burma, a collection of images she produced whilst traveling back to Myanmar for the first time after nearly 15 years. Having lived there as a child, she then situated her memories back in the present. Her work aimed at giving light to the banal, the everyday life seeking to create a new vocabulary of images whilst talking about Myanmar, avoiding the exoticism known of the western world. tuntun.ch