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Simone Aughterlony and Hahn Rowe - Biofiction



(2016, 75') Italian premiere

performance Simone Aughterlony, Jen Rosenblit, Hahn Rowe
concept Simone Aughterlony
live music Hahn Rowe
dramaturgical advice Saša Bozic, Jorge León
costume design Judith Steinmann
lighting design Florian Bach
technical director Ursula Degen
production management Sina Kießling
production Simone Aughterlony, Verein für allgemeines Wohl
co-production Gessnerallee Zurich, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, Theater Freiburg
supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Coproduction Fund for Dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag, City of Zurich, Canton of Zurich Fachstelle Kultur e / and Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

 

The purchase of the ticket for this show will allow you to assist to the performance Oblò (30’) at 8.45 p.m. – Arsenale Foyer Tese (free entrance subject to seating availability)

 

Under 14 not admitted
Nudity on stage

Author's statement

Biofiction is a rare love story between many. Situated within an artificial wilderness that offers a close-up on human and non-human assemblages, a inquiry into vibrant matter produces a choreographic poem that is both careful and utterly libidinal. Gathering the remains of the previous two works in The Biofiction Trilogy – the hot pink flesh placeholder, wood and crafting tools, the rope that weaves, the natural and artificial entanglement of fluids and materials – Biofiction creates a new horizontal terrain that renders a plurality of agencies without ontological hierarchy. What may ordinarily be considered inadequate stimuli is now attended to for all its sensual and specific qualities, cultivating an irrational love of matter. The intimate rapport, the dance that spectrums acts of labour, pleasure, cohabitation and simply ’being with’, refuses the normative divisions between nature and culture, male and female or any such binary.
A practice of reorienting and redistributing the senses generates a queer consciousness and affirms a landscape that is both present and utopian. We see stereotypes and prototypes, we recognise then delight in mis-recognition, we may even laugh despite ourselves. Understanding Biofiction in terms of a narrative of sexuality that does not yet exist, sustains curiosity – defying conventions or identification renders this choreographic work as a continuous world – building practice. Is this movement research, music or fun post-porn practice? Beyond the associations, it brings the bodies and companion materials in conversation to know no difference between being excited, being exciting and being excited-with.

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