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Touching: The Alterity Within
‘All touching entails an infinite alterity, so that touching the other is touching all others, including the “self,” and touching the “self” entails touching the strangers within.’ Karen Barad
Touching: The Alterity Within explores the idea of touch through live performance in combination with augmented, virtual reality. As the bodies on and beyond the stage become entangled, they use their physical, mental and sensory skills to connect, creating a hybrid hyper-organism that operates in the only reality there is – constant transition.
In the pursuit of a more capacious we, the piece blurs the boundaries between self and other, outside and within, technology and nature gesturing towards other, queer, trans-realities where everything is touching.
- Ager recommendation: 16+
Choreography and performance Rafał Pierzyński
Performance Mira Rojzman
Sound performance Simon Grab
Phones and lights development and performance Andri Schatz
Projected virtual worlds ArchLevel
Drone performance Joachim Korus
Costumes Martyna Kołtun & Yana Slattery, advise Dopamina Rebis FX
Scent Michelle Schuhmacher
with the sculpture 'Lavender Spell' by Christopher Füllemann
with the audio recording by Karen Barad from 'Meeting The Universe Halfway'
Dramaturgy Kathrin Veser
Dramaturgical production advisor Tanzhaus Zurich Marc Streit
Concept and research Rafał Pierzyński, Ozelot Studios, Mira Rojzman, Andri Schatz, Simon Grab, Arch Level, Kathrin Veser, Marc Streit
Coproduction Tanzhaus Zurich
Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, MIGROS Kulturprozent, Foundation Nestlé pour l’Art, Fonds culturel de la Société Suisse
With their permission, the title from Karen Barad’s lecture ‘On Touching: The Alterity Within’. Besides that, the work deeply resonates with the writings of Donna J. Haraway, Jack Halberstam, Karen Barad, Sarah Ahmed, Paul B. Preciado, Timothy Morton, as well as Pierzyński's previous collaborations with Isabel Lewis, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Ania Nowak, Ewa Dziarnowska, Agata Grabowska, Aga Pędziwiatr, among others.
