Every development is shared with the audience in public manifestations. Motus Mori Institute is a place for process. This institute focuses on the collection, preservation, display and transfer of the human movement. In the period 2021-2024 Katja Heitmann and her team will develope an institute for movement-heritage: Motus Mori. In such an institution a new form of historiography takes place: not a theoretical but an embodied historiography. An attempt to archive the impossible: an archive of movement.Ī repository for movement requires an active institute that literally moves for and through people. She wants to create an archive in which the most essential, paradoxical and elusive core of mankind is preserved. Katja Heitmann wants to write a different history. But is this how we want to be remembered? As strings of data, feeding self-sustaining algorithms? We reduce people to comparable data, to categorizable differences, in order to be able to optimize control over our fate. – the beauty and vulnerability of dance in a sophisticated concept.”Īnyone who studies the archives of humankind sees an one-sided image of humanity an image that is focused on measurability and control. ![]() “In Museum Motus Mori Heitmann collects, describes, archives and exhibits the minimal movements, we all make every day, but which immediately disappear. The way this comes to form, via the body instead of via the mind, is more effective, more direct and more touching than any video, photo or text will ever be.” “Museum Motus Mori is a kinetic portrait of all of us. “I recognize my ‘tra\nslated’ tics and gestures, whispering mixed with those of Pavel, Monika, Tosca and Herr Stamm. Turning the Gestures of Everyday Life Into Art – The New York Times ()
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