Katja Heitmann: Motus Mori PERPETUUM

photo: Linus Harms

An immersive and moving video installation. Choreographer Katja Heitmann collects and preserves ‘human movement’. More than 2,000 people have already donated their personal movements. In the new artwork PERPETUUM, you meet these moving ‘movement donors’.

Different people from the Motus Mori archive are made visible on a monumental scale. As you get closer, you stand face to face with them and hear the stories behind their movements. In a sea of light, your personal movement also becomes visible.

Katja Heitmann is fascinated by humankind’s continuous attempts to make itself immortal. This is why, since 2019, she has been collecting personal movements to preserve them for the future. Based on this Motus Mori archive of movement, she creates new artworks each time, which make you pause and reflect on what moves us as humans.