OPEN WOUND

A Micro-Action by Laura Aris

Open Wound is part of a series of solo micro-action works created by Laura Arís during her 2013/14 artist residency at the HKAPA-Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.


Make the invisible visible.
From the inside of a closed room, hidden from within
from the ugly,
the most intimate,
from the unspoken, the unshown.
From what you may not want, even had a name.

A possibility to inhabit what I am and, from there, become something new.


“The blood jet is poetry, and there is no stopping it.”
Sylvia Plath




The Press said


“Open Wound, a performance that goes beyond what the audience reads as a dance piece, it was something like unfolding a body language sustained by dance but at the same time nourished by powerful theatricality.”


El Apuntador, Revista de Artes Escénicas (Quito, Ecuador, Abril 2015).



“A glossy highlight is being set in the open air courtyard by dancer Laura Aris, who bewitches in her Open Wound with the infatuating and unsettling grace of a praying mantis."

Martin Vögele, Manheimer Morgen, Germany (2015)


Open Wound

Created and performed by Laura Aris
Music: Banda Ionica, Samir Kadribašić