Nevin Aladağ
one minute dance

As her contribution to the graphic portfolio Love It or Leave It (EB66), Nevin Aladağ produced a series of unique works with shoe prints in black acrylic paint. Superimposed in amorphous patches or quietly outlined, the works show the traces of movement from the artist’s one-minute dances as a stamped pattern. While the works from Aladağ’s series Stiletto (2006-16) – metal plates subsequently painted in different colors with the imprints of stiletto heels pressed into them – are named after the respective songs to which Aladağ danced during their creation, this indication remains open in one minute dance.
“Dance always becomes political when it allows the possibility of a break with the everyday structure of habit. This can happen through a sudden and quasi involuntary outburst of energy or creativity in gestures, steps, jumps, or through deep silence. Or it can happen through the careful choreographic composition of elements that suddenly form an atmospheric density in which the transmission of an affect has a transformative effect in the social situation in which the dance takes place – you just always have to be aware of whether such an effect is politically progressive and emotionally joyful or politically regressive, reactionary and emotionally sad.”¹
Text: Katrin Seemann

¹ Nevin Aladağ, in: „Nevin Aladağ interviewt Nevin Aladağ. Version Wien 2010”, printed in: René Block (ed.), Nevin Aladağ. 10 Jahre / 10 Years, München 2011, p. 107.