*work in progress* Bodies are places of affects and emotions. As subjective as they feel, they are always political and part of a circular, cultural economy of emotion. They are not to be located simply “inside” or “outside.” Rather, they create the very effect of boundaries between bodies and worlds. With the exhibition Prologue: Mantras for a Club at the Stadtgalerie Bern, PRICE opens the exhibition (15.09 - 03.10.2020) as the first of a series of performances entitled Ouverture: Mantras for a Club to be presented at the Arsenic in Lausanne and the Neumarkt Theater in Zurich 2020-21 As part of one weekly residency, PRICE will be sharing two different work in progress, testing out some physical and sonically occasions.

PRICE is the name behind a fictional character developed by artist Mathias Ringgenberg in a number of hybrid performative works across the last years. The live and video performances with elaborate soundscapes, costume and stage designs as well as a music album, which constitute his body of work, seem at first to obey contemporary imperatives of self-presentation. They could be understood as exercises in ostentatious self-exposure, which explore the affective resonances to an environment that demands constant divestments of the self. We would then be presented a solipsistic figure, who embodies, sings and speaks about the psychopathologies resulting out of these conditions, feelings of loneliness and a fundamental disconnectedness leading the way.Mathias Ringgenberg was born 1986 in Rio de Janeiro and now lives and works between Zürich, Belgium and Los Angeles. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam before receiving an MA Performing Arts and Theater from HKB, Bern in 2015.

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