ALONE TOGETHER (2021)
13th Gwangju Biennale Swiss Pavilion Project


Performance (Trailer)




Movie (Trailer)




In ALONE TOGETHER, four women invite the public to reflect on digital connectivity, online empathy, attention, isolation and absence in a multi-layered narrative.

While the eyes of the performers linger through the digital windows on the happenings of the world, the viewers watch their disconnected bodies as they stare at their screens and gradually transform into hybrid living sculptures serving and glorifying the technological devices. 

ALONE TOGETHER investigates the distraction with technology, consumerism and celebrity culture through a body of work that consists of a performance and a film. The performance takes place in an abstract space and a complex five-hour looped time structure. The performed actions are building a network space through which the audience can wander freely.

This work was comissioned for the Swiss Pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale, one of the most important contemporary art exhibitions in Asia. Co-organised by Kunsthaus Pasquart (Biel/CH) and the Eunam Museum of Art (Gwangju/KR), the pavilion presented ALONE TOGETHER, a performative piece and film installation, by ANNA ANDEREGG and her team of European and South Korean artists.


Team

Anna Anderegg / Choreography & Performance
Seung Yoon Choi / Performance
Laureline Richard / Performance
Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez / Performance
Diagonal Thought - Sara Kim / Architectural Elements & Space Design
Marco Barotti / Sound Design
Swan Park / Cinematography
Johanna Hilari / Dramaturgy
Our Labour - Chunghyung Lee, Chung Kihoon / lighting design
Antoniya Ivanova / Costume Design
Anna-Sara Skarin / Assistant Costume Design
Plastique Fantastique / iSphere
Milica Slacanin / Visual Segments
Pauline Doutreluingne / Text
Junghyun Kwon / Translation
Commune 107 – Sunghyun Park, Eunchong Park / Metal Fabrication
Jisoo Gook / Production Management
Nadine Becker / Management

Co-organisers

Kunsthaus Pasquart
Eunam Museum of Arts



Partner

Embassy of Switzerland in the Republic of Korea



Co-Producers

HeK
Bildstörung
POISON GmbH



Sponsors

Swiss Fund Korea
Arts Council Korea
City of Biel
Canton Bern                                                                 
City of Detmold
Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation
Ernst Göhner Foundation
Lufthansa
Pro Helvetia




 
  


Film ‘ALONE TOGETHER’ (2021)







Research (2020)


 

What does it mean for a society to be in a constant fragmented state of consciousness? How do our bodies evolve and endure in a state of physical isolation and permanent digital connection? What does it do to us when we are all almost permanently absent - in digital worlds?
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