a pulse with no body a sun with no skyis an installation for the theater space. Ezra and Bosse are again collaborating with Benjamin Cools for the sound design.Texts are written by Bosse.
Together, they create a zone in which spectators are invited to let go of everyday modes of looking and thinking and open themselves to strange, unsuspected connections and affections between patches of light, patches of sound, bodies and devices. Spectators are seated on the stage, which is spanned by an arc of light. A voice speaks and speculates about the sensory capacities and dreams of animals, from sponges to rats.
For despite our differences, we rhyme biochemically.
A first version of this new installation will be presented during Playground 2024, a festival by STUK and Museum M in Leuven.
Have you ever heard about that game
where you draw part of an animal’s body
on a sheet of paper
and then fold it away
so the next one can start on the legs or the head?
As the paper unfolds
all these strange creatures
reveal themselves
all these different purposes and sensations
brought together in one body.
Perhaps that game
is where chimeras and sphinxes come from
and perhaps this is why
there are so many different shapes of sphinxes
lion bodies and goat’s legs and women’s heads:
endless variations of intermingled bodies
processing a kaleidoscopic influx of sensory information
electromagnetic
infrared
echolocal
perhaps those people playing this game looked at their drawings
full of puzzlement
and thought:
this must be a gatekeeper to other worlds
a watcher of the horizon
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15.11.24Playground Festival, STUK, Leuven (BE)
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14.11.24Playground Festival, STUK, Leuven (BE)
©Simon van der Zande
©Simon van der Zande
©Simon van der Zande
© Joeri Thiry STUK
