Claire Vivianne Sobottke
GOLDEN GAME

Golden Game is a collaboration of Claire Vivianne Sobottke and Tian Rotteveel on uncontrolled spaces of childhood and the body of desire. It is a catapult to childhood, to its raw emotional landscapes and the uncontrolled amplitudes emotions can have. Of the fact that children are being thrown into a world of emotions and communication without understanding them, and even to become their only means to express and connect to the concrete and abstract world. It’s a research dedicated to curiosity and playfulness, cancelling assumptions and learned behavior. It explores naïve embodiment as a detector of the symptoms in the world. It explores a body that is driven by raw desires and sensations, constantly pulled into various directions, a body not stable, but a becoming. Open the ability to enjoy transformation and having an inconsistent identity, a playable one.

Playing physical-, word-, and mind games, with the joy of being watched playing. It understands the performer as a desiring and inventive machine incapable of not reacting to the present.