A being in its seemingly natural habitat embarks on an existential metamorphosis. Disoriented and disassembled, it finds itself falling, sensing, mimicking the movements of plants, machines or insects; a post- or trans-human organism trying to piece together its existence in an ambiguous body.
ontogenesis dreams: a sideways stretching of the sensory limbs is a collaborative hybrid of performance and installative environment choreographed and performed by Astrid Tetsche Sweeney with sculpture & scenography by Weixin Quek Chong.
Inspired by the molting processes of insects, queer ecologies and the radical vision of post-apocalyptic adaptation in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, they explore the body’s impermanence through its relationship with an ambiguous organic material.
Credits
Choreographer,performer and director: Astrid Tetsche Sweeney
Scenography, sculptural installation and co-director: Weixin Quek Chong
Sound design- composer: Albert “Moss Kissing” Dean
Lighting design: Ryoya Fudetani
Videographer/photographer: Julio Galeote
Sound technician: Bart Aga
Dramaturgy consultant: Karthika Nair
Outside Eye: Benjamin Francis, Jonas Vandekerckhove
Co-producers: deSingel, KAAP, Esplanade Theatres on the Bay,
Dansehallerne , Holstebro Danse kompagni, National arts council Singapore
With additional support from StatensKunstfond
