saasfee*interventions #1

Crises take our footing, they unsettle and question our conception of the world. Whether of personal, political or social relevance, their effects require both emotional and aesthetic reappraisal. The group performance choreographed by Carla Vollmers takes this reflexive process as its task. in the arrival of the (....) Vollmers fuses movement, sound and language into a three-dimensional collage that deals with the seriousness of our reality in a dream-like manner.

Choreographed by Carla Vollmers.
With Leon Hammerla, Laura Hrgota-Jannene, Luca Lang & Fan Yu Pu.
Costume by Carla Vollmers & Un-Zu Ha-Nul Lee.

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After a phase of transition, in which bodies distanced themselves increasingly from each other, the need to get closer and to arrive - in human interactions, in one's own body, in the present - is greater than ever. If, however, a return to known habits does not seem possible, how do we re-locate ourselves in this strangely familiar system?

In their performances, the four participating artists deal with this matter in different ways: while Emmilou Roessling's solo traverses different modalities and qualities of being and abstraction within dance, the group performance choreographed by Carla Vollmers deals with the role of individual systems and routines in the context of our society. An analytical approach appears in Tamara Goehringer's linguistic examination of the writings of the french philosopher Étienne Souriau, in which she embarks on a search for the essence of existence. Samantha Bohatsch, on the other hand, blurs temporal boundaries and, in a reading performance, asks how the present and past social environments shape a human being.