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This artist duo based in Berlin has worked together since 2007. Their work often revisits materials from the past, such as a score, a piece of music, a film, a photograph or a performance, wondering about and excavating unrepresented or illegible moments of utopia in history. They work with performance to create embodiments, which can conflate different times, whilst drawing relations between these times. In this way, Boudry/Lorenz often create illegitimate collaborations: partly fictitious, partly cross-temporal.

The performers in their films are choreographers, artists and musicians, with whom they are having a long-term conversation about performance, the meaning of visibility since early modernity, the pathologization of bodies, but also glamour and resistance. They are interested in the question of how ‘normality’ can be reworked today, how difference can be lived without constant disempowerment, without being appropriated and without taking on the neoliberal economy’s offers of integration.