Speculations
Imagination, speculation and description, three differently charged modes of address, are in this presentation used to develop ideas in front of an audience. The spectator is not directly participating in the performance but is never the less playing an active role in the encounter. Ideas around artificial nature, catastrophic constructions and the autonomy of objects are being processed through talking, gesturing and moving. Speech and physical actions are given equal value, while being used to materialize a virtual performance within the mind of the spectator.
Premiered in 2011 at Moving Agenda Festival, Århus
The Artificial Nature Series
Speculations is one of five works in The Artificial Nature Series created between 2009 – 2012. The interest in fictionalizing and choreographing natural phenomena started with evaporated landscapes, a performance installation devoid of human presence where the act of performing itself was given over to materials like bubbles, foam, fog, sounds and light. In 2010 and 2011 The Extra Sensorial Garden and The Light Forest followed. In the latter spectators were invited to wander through a dark forest following LED lights that had been installed in trees as a way of dramatizing and fictionalizing the natural landscape and environment. In 2011 the interests in non-human agency developed through Speculations; a discursive practice performance using language to conceptually prefigure The Artificial Nature Project that concluded the series in 2012.
Concept & Performance: Mette Ingvartsen
Production Management: Kerstin Schroth
A production of Mette Ingvartsen/ Great Investment
Support: Summer Intensive 2011 organized by Christine De Smedt/les ballets C de la B & DOCH (University of dance and circus, Stockholm)
Mar
1,
2017 9:12 AM
2017 |
March 1 - 2 | Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna | |
Feb 23, 2017 9:12 AM | February 23 - 25 | HAU1 Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin |
Nov
25,
2016 9:12 AM
2016 |
November 25 | Nanterre-Amandiers Centre Dramatique National | |
May 15, 2016 9:12 AM | May 15 | Centre Pompidou, Metz, France |
Oct
16,
2015 9:12 AM
2015 |
October 16 | Serpentine Galleries, London, UK | |
Mar 20, 2015 9:12 AM | March 20 | Brakke Grond, Amsterdam |
Nov
7,
2014 9:12 AM
2014 |
November 7 | Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, UK | |
Mar 8, 2014 9:12 AM | March 8 | Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium | |
Jan 24, 2014 9:12 AM | January 24 | Ufertstudios, Berlin, Germany |
Sep
19,
2013 9:12 AM
2013 |
September 19 | Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway | |
Aug 29, 2013 9:12 AM | August 29 | Reykjavik, Iceland | |
Apr 18, 2013 9:12 AM | April 18 - 19 | MDT, Stockholm, Sweden |
Dec
19,
2012 9:12 AM
2012 |
December 19 | Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium | |
Sep 27, 2012 9:12 AM | September 27 | BUDA, Kortrijk, Belgium | |
Apr 1, 2012 9:12 AM | April 1 | Tanzfabrik, Berlin, Germany |