Laboratory on Feedback in Artistic Processes 3

on has settled on painting. They spent the first part of their life in
France and Switzerland with another name, gender and language.
They has worked as a teacher, seller, maker and cultural event organizer
in different structural contexts (independent spaces, small
businesses, public art projects) in francophone Switzerland. Yaron’s
works include international curatorial projects, exhibitions,
screenings, workshops, theatre, cinema and art performances in
Europe and beyond. With a background in education, economics
and art, they has an MA in Visual Arts /Critical Curatorial Cybermedia
(University of Art & Design, Geneva) and an MA in Solo/
Dance/Authorship (University of the Arts, Berlin).
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Zwoisy Mears-Clarke. I am a choreographer of the encounter. My
personal background of immigration — from Jamaica to the United
States at the age of 13 and from the United States to Germany
at 21 — sensitized me to the many social structures that fracture
and alienate people from one another. What is it that’s blocking
us from meeting one another as we actually are? I use the expanded
potentiality of the choreographic space to confront the forms
of oppression that sabotage human interaction both structurally
and interpersonally. Dance offers us temporary environments that
can suspend the everyday duress of racism, colonial nostalgia,
nationalism and prejudice, creating opportunities to move differently.
Through choreography, I desire to open encounters that
might otherwise seem unreachable. Every work I make involves
a layering of stories — my own memories, those of others I have
spoken with during the process of making a work, and those of
the viewer. My presentations often take place in non-traditional
spaces like galleries or even outdoors. Moving between spoken
and movement languages and beyond the proscenium stage, my
choreographies give us the opportunity to meet each other — and
ourselves — anew.