Thoughts through a body, 2021

HD Video 7’21’’ Dancing Thoughts,
Poems in typewritten booklet 21cm x 12cm

“Thoughts Through a Body” is a multimedia project created in 2020-21, comprising a typewritten booklet and a HD-video.  The video captures a poetic exchange where one person draws/writes thoughts onto the skin of another, who then transfers them onto paper. These thoughts are expanded feelings of the poems written by Lucilla, who sent them to us. Lucilla’s poems were collected to process her feelings and foster a deeper sense of connection with her life anxieties during the pandemic.

During a time of reduced social interactions, the work responds on our muted expressions and to our need for connection. Through words, drawings, and multimedia we wanted to create a listening practice. The HD video titled “Dancing Thoughts“ intertwines visual representations of thoughts with Lucilla’s poems.

Collaboration with artists Lucilla Patrizi and Jonas Kolecki





© Irene Rainer