Inflammations (Pandemic Edition) copes with chronic pain and the way it affects bodies as they engage in work and pleasure. The video performance made by a mixed team of artists identifying as disabled, able-bodied, deaf, neurodiverse and trans problematises the boundaries between wellbeing and sickness, medical authority and felt experience. While recognising chronic pain as a form of disability it further speculates about fatigue as a possible persistent condition affecting many of us in the (post-)pandemic reality.

The video attempts to take accessibility into consideration. It is performed in spoken English and German Sign Language. Difference or disability invisible on the outside is approached through language and its ability to stab, stiffen and inflame, as well as, to relieve, care and cure. Word games, repetitions and instructions function as spells for breaking the cycle of suffering and invisibility.

Idea, choreography Ania Nowak

Creation, performance Angela Alves, Athina Lange, Laura Lulika, Ania Nowak

Text Ania Nowak with Angela Alves, Laura Lulika

Camera Anu Czerwiński, Miłosz Więckowski

Editing Anu Czerwiński

Outside eye Julia Plawgo

Stage design Christopher Füllemann

Light design Aleksandr Prowaliński, Cathy Walsh

Sound Justyna Stasiowska

Costumes Grzegorz Matląg/Wsiura

GSL-Translation Ulli Steinseifer

Production management Ben Mohai

Thanks to Anne Rieger, Mateusz Szymanówka, Noa Winter

Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Minister of State for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance”

Photos Anu Czerwiński