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Masha Jaklitsch (Pauline Jaklitsch) dancer/choreographer, poet, visual artist, linguist

Masha Jaklitsch, also Pauline Jaklitsch, is an austrian artist and feminist from graz, who is based in vienna too. She does yoga since 2005. Having studied visual arts at the rietveld academie and physical theatre at the école lecoq in paris and estudis berty tovias in barcelona, Masha/Pauline/Lilli/Ulli sorry mum and dad FYI: THE ONLY ONES I FEEL INCLINDED TO APOLOGISE TO FOR CHANGING MY NAME LEGALLY has got a university background in linguistics and languages in graz (BA), vienna and amsterdam (unfinished MA). Since 2022 Masha is with artist-led-space in graz in the margaretenbadviertel.


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UNDER THE SEA

Under The Sea is a text that I started in 2006 living in Berlin. Actually it was on holidays in Graz, I spent in the Margaretenbad basically, where I have written the first pages. I then continued irregularly for years and years, also in Paris where I attended Ecole Jacques Lecoq, and in 2021, all beginning in 2019, decided to do the fairy tale Under The Sea x Searching For Bluebeard. I worked on this going with the flow within the context of my studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where I used to sit in the playground trying to see how one could render this increasingly existential dystopia we live through more utopic. Under The Sea x Metamorphosis; Die Vase Meiner Oma is its continuation in Vienna and Graz and my studio exhibition with the title Under The Sea - Meta 1 the context of these two texts.

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All of the text is grounded in Carl Gustav Jung's theory of the collective subconscience and the archetypes. This fairytale adaption of the Bluebeard material is, therefore, based on the understanding that in a world of systemic and systematic discrimination - such as sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, anti-islamism, racism, xenophobia - against people from various demographic backgrounds Bluebeard is not one person who can be singled out. Rather Bluebeard becomes everyone and noone. Bluebeard is (in) the corrupt system, which is increasingly extreme, that in its capitalistic flexibility uses and instrumentalises each and everybody when needed to uphold the hierarchies that are to be described as problematic in more than one sense (environmental desctruction, climate change, war, economies). The story of Under The Sea x Searching For Bluebeard starts when it becomes clear that some of the remedies to keep the system (city running break down. Bluebeard has undermined the social and the decay has become too severe to be ignored. To counter this society itself has to become active and see how to be human, the human rights and dignity can be defended. It is up to the people in this dytopic city to add utopia to the bigger picture. It is done going with the flow and through communication. Parts of the city are turning and twisting in difficult to understand dynamics. All important people with an ability to meaningfully interpret the complexity of the situation decide to work together to make for a change. Between the coffeeshop (café) and the opéra, there is synthesis and poetry, intellectual discourse that aims at a metamorphosis to heal those parts of all society that were broken. At the end of the text there is a group of 'personnages' with quite a bit of agency threatened to be marginalised. At the end Bluebeard, at least in the text in the text/play in the play "Searching For Bluebeard"- a gesamtkunstwerk at the opéra in the city - has to flees...



under the sea X metamorphosis; die vase meiner oma

... And so have the 'personnages'. The Barista, who owns the coffeeshop, has to close it, due to corruption. Orlando and Ziggy take the train to meet Il Maestro and the Set Designer 1 in another city. There they live in a shared apartment in the beginning and the Barista, Piercing and the Neighbour join. The opéra grants Il Maestro a space (a let down factory outside of the city) as an unofficial rehearsal space to continue the work on "Searching For Bluebeard". Together with Maître de Danse, Ziggy and She/Elle the idea is discussed to add a part to the choreography healing. Where the second version is to be presented is unclear yet. Due to the dire economic situation in this dystopic nature mortes world the idea of a pop-up soup kitchen comes about and each of the 'personnages' helps in this Barista's project. Going back and forth from the city to the let down factory becomes difficult. There are controls so that container living is developed on site; Container Paradis. She/Elle is there and He too as well as some dancers who could not be disencouraged by the recent rehearsal space.

A nouveau cirque with its tent and caravan, two horses and a dog arrive and it is agreed on to share the space. People from the city start to visit this official rehearsal space of the opéra that has become a self-organised artist community constructing minimal living. Then the site is threatened to be ? while Il Maestro is offered a project in the museum and the Barista starts negotiations for a new cafe. Orlando is on a residency in Portugal and *all, including Ziggy are with the Barista's catering for pool parties for some income and art projects. The personnages are back in the city and in the house they lived in before and the Barista's cafe opens.

Under The Sea x Metamorphosis; Die Vase Meiner Oma asks questions like: How to make the best of a dire situation going with the flow? How to get back to where you belong or find/make new places where you do? How can one heal? How can society? The Metamorphosis is an inbetween space. The text moves through different phases and spaces. At the end, that of this part of the text, the situation is better than it was before. The metamorphosis, though, continues.


-In this text there is a * which in linguistics is a sign to mark ambiguity in semantics-

© 2006-2023 Masha Jaklitsch (Pauline Jaklitsch)


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Hallo!
Today I am in Vienna and post the part of the exhibition that you can see online; the Under The Sea - Meta 1 html or virtual exhibition space. I do this because there are, of course, people who are not based in Graz. From Vienna it is 2 1/2 hours by train and a 10 minutes bus ride to my studio. For all those who cannot drop by in person, this is the link to the "html-exposition". Click here


March 16th 2023
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