In LOT, Fabian Riess and Tasha
Hess-Neustadt deal with construction and decay. A flow of affect and resonance accelerates
the volume of silence. For two years, the collective has been dealing with the
extremes of restriction and freedom and, in its somatic research, is concerned with their
effects on the body. Starting from a dystopian landscape, they interact with the space,
follow impulses, create closeness and intimacy. Two performers in a trio with their surroundings.
Imagine a desert arena, a suspended and liminal space. Somewhere after the decaying
remnants of capitalist realism have lost their meaning, before the formation of the
next future fantasy. A somatic kind of science fiction. Decay and regrowth morph into one
another. Movement becomes the measure of temporality. Cycles open and close steadily,
almost imperceptibly, until the previous order reveals itself in a new form. After the sun has
bleached out all artifacts of our late anthropocene, and the lava has solidified back into
cracking stone, we dream to ride the thing which breaks us. To reappropriate the constancy
of our systems.
stage and costume design
choreography: Riess Hess-Neustadt
at Schwere Reiter München