A porous landscape out of moss and concrete, within porous bodies. Bones, bubble wrap, crack. Voids and pores open up, have always been open. They make the landscape and the bodies fragile. Make them tremble in their vulnerability and their rage. And yet, they make the landscape and the bodies permeable: In the voids, the boundaries between inside and outside diffuse. The bodies become part of the landscape, the landscape part of the bodies. What can grow out of this?
The multi-media choreography physical prospects explores the resistant potential of the porous and precarious with body, sound, and installation. physical prospects uses porosity as an aesthetic analogy for the precarious. The choreography approaches precariousness, a basic bodily condition, and precarity, an immediate social and economic threat or the scenario thereof:
Because human bodies are vulnerable, human life is fundamentally precarious. Berlin 2021 - even if we share this dependency, it hits us differently: it tears open gaps of varying sizes between the omnipresent expectation to somehow get along and the social and economic reality that makes that systematically impossible. The dystopia of the present - capitalism, climate crisis, and the like - culminates into a precarious, porous structure that is always threatening to collapse.
How can resistance find a place in the voids of precarious and porous circumstances? How can we find resistance in the spaces where vulnerability and anger meet? Anger at the expected but unacceptable conditions - vulnerability as a radical mode of interaction. physical prospects is a manifesto of the fragile and permeable. In the artistic modes of production and the shared moment with the audience, physical prospects invites into the hollow spaces of a counter-design - a feminist utopia?
With the support of: TATWERK Berlin, Theaterhaus Mitte und Tanzfabrik Berlin.