Nataša Mihoci - Nobody Is Innocent
45'
Nobody Is Innocent, featuring the students of the ZKM dance studio between 6 and 14 years of age
The project deals with the subject of the individual, that part of our
personality that is “just ours” and in which we feel free. By accepting
and imitating the contents from our environment, we are constantly
losing this freedom. The learning process means both gaining and losing.
If the process of learning or growing up is referred to as “dirtying”
and losing oneself, the question raised is whether we have ever been
clean and innocent. Is there any such thing as innocence?
The answer to this question is explored by comparing adult female
“dancing” bodies with the bodies of girls, their immaturity and
straightforwardness, as well as the lack of dancing skills. The main
focus is an individual’s formation in comparison and in relation to
others. The project addresses the role of media and popular culture,
which impose children’s trends, role models, ideals, etc. How do
explicit sexual contents accessible via media destroy the innocence of
young girls, who absorb and imitate these contents in the formation of
their female identities. If the media culture is the one teaching us how
to become a woman, children, in their lost purity, cannot be compared
to angels.