A Hand’s Turn
Lenio Kaklea

“A Hand’s Turn” is a publication of Lenio Kaklea, accompanying her performance “A Hand’s Turn”. In this book the choreographer investigates functional, political, and symbolic dimensions of the left-right division, examining the tension between face and mask, body and face.

Our gestures might carry stories of which we are unconscious. In the so-called primitive societies, one could not have a face if one did not wear a mask. In contemporary Western democracies, the opposite holds true: Individuals can experience identity only by maintaining an uncovered face. If the quest for transparency has become the core of our liberal democracies and a trivial tool of state control, how do our bodies remain opaque and mysterious, after all? —Lenio Kaklea

Written by Lenio Kaklea
Curatorial collaboration by Lou Forster
Text Editing by Eleni Tranouli
Design by Studio Lialios Vazoura

Language: English
Pages: 208
Format: 130 × 200mm, softcover, unsewn, cold glue, layflat
Edition: 300 copies

May, 2017

ISBN: 978-618-83082-1-3