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ONTOLOGICAL MUTANY
Performance (40min), Startelpa Performance Festival, Riga, Latvia
HUMAN CLAY DANCE COLLECTIVE Direction & Costumes: Anna Kushnerova _ Live Sound & Vocals: Anastasia Freygang _ Cinematography: Raul Bartolome
Birds: Sofia Kovarich, Tejus Menon, Anna Kushnerova, Alexandra Jane Wynne, Miguel Valentini
Photography Raul Bartolome
Complimentary to its prosthetic reality, the human kind begins to replace other exterminated live forms.
Mechanically we strive to enlarge the physiological qualities of diminishing species - their size, speed & durability.
As a result, the emerging cyborg creatures lack in aspiration and mastery, leading way to a Dystopia - a prosthetic reality filled with technologically uninspired species, redundant to their necessity and function, doomed to suffering, unable to dream, unable to vibrate with the speed of mystery.
The Dance Tale is a reflection on the hypothetical future, a story of a new tension arising in the face of the arrival of mechanical species.
The performance is a cross-disciplinary exploration into the crisis, identity, and rupture in a cyborg-nature-culture.
size cyborg birds was developed to substitute for their diminishing species in nature.
Their mechanical feathers, wings and aerodynamic bodies were of most exquisite technological design and allowed for their migration on exceeding distances.
Their purpose was intended for pollination and as messengers.
Modelled through the prism of human logos however their condition was such that they did not aspire to the height of flight, and eventually their ability to mobilise into the sky deteriorated.
A poetically absurd tale exploring the suffering of the meta-specie beings.
We explored through the chimeric body, a dance of machine and animal, with elements of Butoh, sculptural costumes, and live sound.