Surbending
A staged experiment of strategies of navigation and self-realisation in environments beyond one’s control. Bending the walls to a blanket.
19:30
Black Box, Teaterøen
the work
Through developing and exploring tools for motion tracking with webcams, choreographer Andreas Haglund and composer Asta Norborg/FASCIA will explore how surrendering can contain strategies of subversion and survival for queer individuals.
This is done through the lens of their shared experience as queer people navigating institutions of healthcare. A situation where the fate of individual queer lives is robbed of self-determination.
The artists will re-produce artificial scenarios for a black box where this upheaval of self-determination is at stake. Through advanced aural technologies, choreographic methods and work with text this affect will be reproduced and experimented with.
This worksharing concludes the artists' one week IN PROCESS residency leading up to the festival. During the residency, the artists are continuing the work they started when they were first paired together for a residency hosted by performance venue Inkonst and queer culture organization page 28. The worksharing consists of a sharing of physical material followed by a feedback conversation, where you are invited to contribute to the conversation about the artistic development work; a conversation spurred by care and constructive feedback that makes the art sprout and grow.
The artists
Trough working with Andreas, Asta has deepened notions of embodiment in her practice, and been able to extend that embodiment through experimenting with externalizing part of the compositional work to the body of the dancer.
Andreas Haglund
Andreas Haglund (SE/DK) works as a freelance dancer, performer and choreographer in and around Stockholm and Copenhagen.
Their artistic practice centers explorations of the somatic, material and aesthetic coherences between queer lived experience and the cultural conception of nature. On stage, in dance practice and in text.
They are educated in Dance & Choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts where they trained mostly western dance techniques with an emphasis on contemporary dance practices. Their education also included an exchange semester at The Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, Croatia.
Andreas has worked in various constellations with choreographers, visual artists and institutions such as: Frédéric Gies, Jules Fischer, Weld Company, Zheng Bo, Tårnby Park Studio, Nordlys, Stina Ehn, Antonia Harke & Denise Lim.
Asta Norborg (hun/hende)
Asta Norborg is a Malmö-based composer and electronic musician. She primarily performs under the moniker FASCIA, where she explores technology as a site of sensual queer experience.
YC FESTIVAL
The work was developed and performed by choreographer Andreas Haglund and composer Asta Norborg (also known as FASCIA) during a one-week residency prior to YC Festival 2023.
YC FESTIVAL 2023 was the last edition of HAUT’s biennial festivals, and took place at Teaterøen, Copenhagen. The festival was conceptualised and co-curated by the artists Lydia Ö. Diakité, Vala T. Foltyn and Jari Malta. Together, we discussed the term cultivation and its readings, such as acts of caring, of nurturing, and of fertilizing.