Interval is a video series produced during my GlogauAIR residency in 2025. Exploring breaks as transitioning moment , in non-places and linking childhood games and gestures with human body functions, Google search engine, auto-fiction and riddles to create possible worlds and act within them. A self reflection on chosen and not so chosen breaks, how difficult hit can get sometimes to take one actually, borrowing simplicity and playfulness from a universal homo ludens.
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Ioanna Loup (she/her) is a performer, dancer and medical doctor from Athens, Greece, based in Berlin, Germany. Her multidisciplinary practices focus on embodied movement practices, video, text, poetry and healing through art therapy. Her work focuses on the human body both as anatomy and a system of movement and emotions, using the body as her material. She reflects on the way we look at things and how this is translated in our brain, bringing the science of vision into performance lectures.
She draws inspiration from myths and symbols, Jungian concepts, everyday text extracted from conversations, digital spaces, lyrics or doctor’s letters. She uses the medium of collage in pictures, sound and text as a practice for forming, reforming and transforming. Moreover, drawing from a very personal grief and mourning experience, Loup questions the nature of society’s separation from grief, while attempting to bring to the forefront a more visible, colourful, and vivid expression of mourning and loss as a part of everyday life.
The project Interval explores taking a break as a radical act and not as a task to master. It borrows simplicity from childhood games, remembering that pause was once a thrill. The breaks become the performance inhabiting the in-between of a non place and the body explores fulfilment through play.