BODY TRACKS

for two performer and fixed media

BODY TRACKS (2023/24) is a musical-scenic performance for two performers, video and tape, which focuses on the body as a site of violence as well as self-empowerment. It is the iconographic gesture from Ana Mendieta’s performance of the same title from the 1970s that is taken up and reinforced in Muntendorf’s BODY TRACKS, similar to the way it was practiced by Nancy Spero in her ‘Homage to Ana Mendieta’ at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut in 1995. As a performance, BODY TRACKS is thus simultaneously a ritual of amplification and of the reiteration of signs of resistance.

The film location for BODY TRACKS was the former Düneberg powder factory. The Düneberg powder factory was a major ammunition factory in Geesthacht, Germany. It initially produced gunpowder, which was exported worldwide, and later expanded its production to include various types of ammunition, particularly during the World War I and World War II.