Minute by minute what will happen during this hour, has already happened in the hour before. All of today is replaced by yesterday, yesterday by the day before. – script excerpt
Imaginary Magnitudes is Zhana Ivanova's new performance work. It will premiere at Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam, and afterwards at PLAYGROUND festival, STUK, Leuven.
An image at a swimming pool on the edge of town in Ruse, Bulgaria, on September 23, 1986, forms a recurrent memory. The performance sets conditions for language to repeatedly return to and diffract this image. Two readers relate a script to four mostly unrehearsed performers, who interpret the text live. Fragments of that memory resurface, dissolving into stage scores and rendering memory itself a diffused structure.
Imaginary Magnitudes traces the tensions between what is intended, imagined and actually occurring. It diverges and multiplies experiences of sensory memory, space, pollution, sexuality and class. Assembling fragmentary sensations through reenactment and increasing detail, the insistence on the particular opens up into a magnified and collective present moment.
