it's a CATASTROPHE
Sep
6
5:45 PM17:45

it's a CATASTROPHE

  • Manilla Culture Factory, Itäinen Rantakatu 64 B Turku Finland (map)
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Performance art work to be presented at New Performance Turku Biennale

When and what does it mean to fall apart? And how does one put oneself back together? Examining the cycles we move through in the process of so-called ‘healing’, this work does not seek resolution but instead lingers in the contradictions. The performance happens where the personal meets the systemic, where dissolution is both loss and possibility; in the tension between structure and chaos, between self-help neoliberal rhetoric and genuine transformation.


What if healing was not about becoming more functional, but a surrender to the wild, uncontainable forces within us? The artist works in the performance with a large amount of non-newtonian liquid, ooblek, manipulating and fighting with it as a metaphor of the soft and harsh sides of this struggle, confronting the grotesque beauty of catastrophe, the uncanny interplay of surrender and resistance.

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Moon-Sun-Sara // Sun-Moon-Sara
Jun
18
to Jun 23

Moon-Sun-Sara // Sun-Moon-Sara

New Performance Collaboration with Sara True to be performed at Waking life.

We are the clock, {A} clock, and we traverse the lake at 3’s, 6’s, 9’s, and 12’s, with the sound of a chime. 


The lake performs its circles on us as we circle the lake. We may collect crowds and followers in spontaneous processions Eruptions. We interrupt, invite, ignore, call out, silently push. Time follows its own course, and no one can see inside the mind of the clock. But we can! We are Sun-Moon Sara and Moon-Sun Sara. Our cycles run with moods and the environment; we channel Dionysian revelry and bring Apollonian order, just like the ancient Horae. [Daughters of Chronos, observing the hours of rest, of play, of gymnastics, of feasting, of pleasure, of libations, of bathing]. We are inverted commas, the light in the dark and the dark in the light (we are both switches). We wear costumes: fabulous yet folksy/grungy, our faces partially obscured. Our movements are informed by time’s movements- forwards facing backwards, backwards facing forwards, the hora circle dance [but make it queer]. Troubadours, traveling bards, playful, preening, prancing// Introverts, serious souls, moody ritual proceedings. We are both sides of the coin, and when you toss it up in the air we spin and spin and spin and reflect the light, off the lake, right back at you. 




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