RELIQUIEM - Katja Heitmann

What moves humankind? In the multi-year art project Motus Mori, Katja Heitmann collects and preserves human movement. Since 2019, more than 1,000 people have already donated their personal movement to this embodied archive, an ever-growing foundation from which the choreographer creates new artworks.

Movement

In the 'movement opera' RELIQUIEM, you experience other people's motions in the most direct and touching way possible: through your body. In an intimate ritual, you put yourself in the shoes of the archive's many donors and incorporate their personal "movement relics" into your motion repertoire. Katja calls this 'kinetic empathy'. Which movement would you like to inherit?

Katja Heitmann is fascinated by the human attempt to escape their own mortality. This paradox is the muse of the movement archive Motus Mori. As movement goes and vanishes, we are at the same time epi-central master of our own life ánd just a spark in eternity.

With RELIQUIEM, Katja Heitmann takes her archive research to the next level; creating a collective shared movement heritage to secure it for the future. The archive will be transferred to 'everyone'. After all: doesn't every human being want to keep moving, for eternity?

Practical

Come experience RELIQUIEM as part of Hybrid Tales For Hybrid Times at MU from August 24th until August 27th. The experience is roughly 75min. in length and can be experienced in Dutch or English. Regular admission is €8.00, for students and people with a museum card it is €5.00 and for We Are Public cardholders the experience is free. Do reserve a ticket via the link.