Sola Ipsa is a screendance shot for Exhibition Space Dance 2021, an international online event initiated in Tokyo by Tetsuro Fukuhara.
The title refers to an unexpected quatantine which forced me to make the video entirely by myself. Locked down, I had no choice but to dive into a joyful trial-and-error process and do all the choreographing, dancing, shooting, image and sound editing. The words “sola ipsa” stem from solipsism: I changed latin solus ipse (“me, by myself”) to a feminine form sola ipsa.
Incidentally, “me, by myself” (“ja siama” in childish Polish) was also a playful nickname that my parents gave me when I was little – because each time someone was trying to offer me help, I would immediately answer “no! by myself”. And this was even before I learnt to properly pronounce “sama”.
If you read until this point, you may enjoy a short making of video, too: