“When, as a dancer, I stood alone in the massive crowd of liberation fighters, aware that I shall be able to use my dance gift and weak body to express what had been uniting us, that I shall also be able to master the vast natural space, I felt strength in my feet, tramping the hard soil of the forest ground. ”

- Marta Paulin alias Brina

A monument: a structure, a tangible structure, a lasting tangible structure as a reminder to a historical phenomenon, a fixation of a specific memory arising from the fear of loss of memory. Now: to make one who is movement itself into a monument.

Brina – a kinaesthetic monument brings to presence the Slovenian contemporary dancer Marta Paulin alias Brina – as she was known among her fellow partisans in the National Liberation Front during the WWII. As an artist, Brina performed improvisational dance acts for the fighters and the locals on various meetings and gatherings. After the war, she was forced to give up active dance creation due to frostbite on her toes. The kinaesthetic monument empowers Brina, as an antifascist and a dancer-choreographer, to rise in a liquid and vocal appearance, as body which is movement itself.

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Brina – A kinaesthetic monument is a collaborative project of Leja Jurišić, Bara Kolenc, and the NO1 collective (Peter Kutin, Patrik Lechner, Mathias Lenz)* production: Pekinpah * co-production: NO1 & Samosvoj * co-funding: The Ministry of Culture of Slovenia, Austrian Cultural Forum Ljubljana

© David Višnjić