BODY TONGUES: TECHNO_RAGE
A collaborative ongoing research on the performativity of collective rage in the public space
16:30 - 18:30
Workspacebrussels, Kaaistudios
Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve your spot as seats are limited – send an email to riet@workspacebrussels.be to book your seat.
the artistic research
Body Tongues:Techno_Rage unfolds several trajectories on developing participatory performative protocols on the theme of collective rage in the public space through experimental somatic rage_choirs and rage_raving.
Within the residency space, they seek to compose live sound sampling with an array of different sounds and choir formation by activating audiences in participatory roles. They also wish to craft somatic based practices that activate audiences to move while multisensory bodily zones stimulated by a mapping of corporeal rage facilitates collective choreographies of rage.
The idea is that the audience moves to the sound of their own raging in a rave setting. Rage has the political potential to bridge communities into movements of solidarity and care anchored in liberation and deep desire.
the artists
The group has been collaborating in different occasions over a year within the multimedia installation performance Obsidian Dream Love Letters (2023) and the live performance piece Obsidiana, Erotica, Estranha e Ultravioleta (2024) developing convergent and non-convergent visual, embodied and experimental languages.
The format is shaped in response to the artist’s and the project’s needs. The residency is aimed at Denmark-based artists interested in working internationally and for international artists interested in working in Denmark.
Danish-based artists Sall Lam Toro, suziethecockroach and Keiria Shishay invited into a two week IN CONNECTION residency at workspacebrussels in Brussels with the artistic project "BODY TONGUES: TECHNO_RAGE". This opportunity blossomed out of HAUTs long term collaboration with workspacebrussels – laboratory for research, experiment & creation in the performing arts. The two organisations also provide the brussels-based artist Stanley Ollivier and his collaborator Mamadou Wague two weeks of residency at HAUT this spring to work on their artistic project "Spine Of Desire: Wounds without tears, out of one skin in diamonds and shit".