Kroppens Umulige Sprog
undersøger det snøvlende, tvivlende, vrøvlende sprog.
27.11.22
27.11.22
14:00 - 16:00
Residency finder sted på Teatret Får302
Tickets are free, but registration is required. You can register by writing to billet@hautscene.dk.
Write “Kroppens umulige sprog” (The Impossible Language of the Body) in the subject line.
The residency will take place at Teatret Får302: November 21-27, 2022.
the artistic research
The language of the body has never been the language of patriarchy, because the language of the body is messy. Historically and in the present day, academic and scientifically substantiated texts have always been at the top of the hierarchy.
Concise and logical language is emphasized as useful, and agency is given to those who can express themselves best. Thus, the language of the body, with all its stammering, babbling, and doubt, is dismissed as useless knowledge or experience.
In Karin Hald, Stina Strange Thue, and Filip Vest's project with the working title “The Impossible Language of the Body,” the group will work with everything that cannot be said with normative language, with the slurred, the messy, and the wordless - and the languages that are not listened to. During the residency, the group will delve into the experience and perception that lies in precisely this slurring. The desire is to start a conversation about texts that deliberately slur or ramble and how the language of the body is expressed – and to explore the place where theatre and the body resist the text.
Through texts that are given a body and bodies that are given a text, the group explores the memories, taboos, and forgotten stories that lie in the wordless, and how we can help each other remember the experiences that the body has stored as wordless figures in its cells. What are these experiences that we cannot share with each other and that we miss out on when we give all the space to the spoken language?
The artists
“The Impossible Language of the Body” (working title) is a new collaboration between Karin Hald, Stina Strange Thue, and Filip Vest, created on the basis of their shared interest in text, body, visual arts, and performing arts.
Filip Vest
Filip Vest (DK, b. 1995) holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy. Through performances, installations, films and texts, they examine queer love, loneliness and desire in the 21st century. Applying rehearsal methods from theatre, they test the relationship between the script and the body to investigate the different ways we perform our identities and relations.
Vest’s universe is inhabited by a vast network of small and big things affecting each other: climate change and crumbling relationships, role-playing, doomsday karaoke and re-enacted kisses, a bird falling in love with a statue and a frog having a breakdown in the middle of a striptease. Through mobile phones, walls and windows, the characters communicate and miscommunicate across species and time, while they try to make themselves legible to the outside world.
Filip Vest has previously shown their work at The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen Contemporary, Møstings, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Charlottenborg, Roskilde Festival, Tallinn Kunsthal and for Manifesta13.
the residency
IN PROCESS is HAUTs 1-2 week residency format, which provides space for physical brainstorming sessions that support the exploration and development of new ideas in the performing arts.