The smooth and striated

Esther Manon Siddiquie (*1990 in Bochum) works as a choreographer and performance artist. As such, she is always on the blurry line between performance and dance. Influenced by film and the visual arts, Siddiquie is active in the Ruhr Area, Berlin, New York and London.

In New York, she worked on an interdisciplinary approach to the differences between voluntary and involuntary migration and mobility – based on Gilles Deleuze’s and Felix Guattaris’ theory of the smooth and the striated space. Through dance performances she visualises sedentary and nomadic behaviour on the example of the relation of point and line: While the point dominates the line in sedentary cultures, one point is placed, a second one is added and both are connected with a line; nomadic cultures experience the line dominating the point. Instead of measuring relations and distances, the nomad moves on, always ahead. His map shows not geometry, but the line created by his path.

To Esther Manon Siddiquie’s website