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 unruly organic material.
Credits
Created and directed by Astrid Tetsche Sweeney and Weixin Quek Chong
Choreography & performance: Astrid Tetsche Sweeney
Scenography & sculpture: Weixin Quek Chong
Sound design: Moss Kissing
Lighting design: Ryoya Fudetani
Dramaturgy consultation: Yasen Vasilev
Custom latex wear: Studio FCLX
Video by Dror Shohet
Working process videography & photography: Julio Galeote Carrascosa, Jonas Vandekerckhove
Outside eye: Jonas Vandekerckhove, Francesco Ferrari, Shubigi Rao
Produced by Sheelin Projects
Co-producers:
Dansehallerne, deSingel, Nordic Residency Exchange Program
Residencies:
Esplanade Theatres on the Bay,
deSingel, Holstebro Dansekompagni, KAAP, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen Kunsthall
With the support of:
Statens Kunstfond, National Arts Council Singapore, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden,
William Demant Fonden, Culture Moves Europe (Goethe Institut)
With special thanks to Eastman, Karthika Naïr and Dorte Grannov Balslev
