Nina
Emge

13.05.2022
Somewhere Between Disappearing and Becoming (In)visible

With Moby Dick; or, The Whale, the group Moved by the Motion takes on one of the "Great American Novels." Sophia Al Maria and Wu Tsang's version, interwoven with sub-sub librarian Fred Moten's commentary, tackles the novel's subterranean currents, subterranean currents, encountering a resistant hydrarchy and haptic collectivities of "mariners, renegades, and castaways" (CLR James). We asked the artist Nina Emge, who lives between Zurich and Berlin, for a report for the Schauspielhaus Journal.

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