slogan for modern times

Slogan for Modern Times

Is this really happening? What is it? How do we describe what is happening when we don’t know what it is? How do we experience a space that is constantly dismantling itself, now?

This is happening now.
Stressing the moment before the moment of terror, the now anticipating the following now, two performers insist on the very moment before name-ing and identifying. How long can we stay present with the unidentified something before it is named?

This project explores unknown and ambiguous terror, an affect that takes hostage of the present moment. The performers surf between the horrific and the appealing, the pleasureable and the perverted. Inspired by outcasts and abject physicalities and fantastic hybrid creatures the work is a determinate expression of in betweens. Bodies, beings, things and codes of communication emerge from fictitious emergencies.

Choreography, performance, scenography and music by Inga Huld Hákonardóttir and Katie Vickers
Advisors: Eleanor Bauer, Vlad Ionescu
Graffic design: Bert Jacobs
Light design: Joris De Bolle
Executive production: Kosmonaut Production
Co-production P.A.R.T.S and Kultuurfaktorij Monty
With the support of wpZimmer & de School van Gaasbeek

Performed at:
Rosas Performance Space Brussels, Belgium. May 2014
PACT Zollverein - Essen, Germany. May 2014
Monty - Antwerpen, Belgium. June 2014
Vooruit - Ghent, Belgium. June 2014.
Brakke Grond - Amsterdam, Netherlands. June 2014
Kaai Studios - Brussels, Belgium. June 2014
Bimeras Festival - Istanbul, Turkey. July 2014
Monty - Antwerpen, Belgium. May 2015
Septemberfestival - Gaasbeek, Belgium. September 2015