Anja Plonka
Anja Plonka lives and works between Cologne and Zurich. She studied photography and video at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles as well as scenic research at the Ruhr University Bochum. Anja Plonka worked as artistic assistant for Tobias Zielony, Stracke&Seibt, matthaei&konsorten as well at the theatre colone. Her artistic researches are movements of searching within transdisciplinary fields and questions. Her solo works are based on the body as an archive of traumatic inscriptions and site-specific research. In doing so, she disembodies these inscriptions in a somatic way. In search of a radical, poetic, silent and anarchic space of her own, she seeks the transformations of the body, its inscriptions, images and potentials. In her performances she is interested in an undisciplined body between play, sound, ecstasy and sculpture. Her works have been invited to festivals in Belgium, France, Czech Republic and Switzerland.