Reviews

Chris Haring, with his ingenious Liquid-Loft-team, manages once again to bring a fascinating world of mutant beings to life on the stage, letting them fuse inseparably with

technical and media devices, as well as with their own reproductions.

Veronika Krenn, tanz.at  

Precise use of technology, sound and live projections, expressive choreography.

Silvia Kargl, Kurier

Chris Haring opens up a new dimension of depth with this piece. He delves deep into theunconscious. The dissociation of Medea's personality (into a female and a male part) is the lifeline that enables her to survive psychologically.

Rando Hannemann

About IN MEDEAS RES

Liquid Loft embarks on a new odyssey into a hybrid world of exploration and revision of myth. Two protagonists enter the story of Medea "in the midst of things", but rather than proposing a new interpretation of Euripides' tragedy, they gather associative fragments of the Medea myth creating a juxtaposition with our present male dominated logocentric digital civilization.

Created to exist somewhere between performance and media installation, the project offers an associative process of transformation. The landscape of objects and projections is constantly morphing. It becomes her garment, even approaching the point of becoming a second skin. It is also a body of sound and creates an almost cybernetic environment with cameras, projectors, as well as light and sound systems running in feedback loops.

Credits

Choreographers: Chris Haring, Hannah Timbrell, Dong Uk Kim

Director: Chris Haring

Cast: Hannah Timbrell, Dong Uk Kim

Choreographic Assistants: Dante Murillo, Anna Maria Nowak, Luke Baio

Composition/Soundconcept: Andreas Berger

Light Design/Scenography: Thomas Jelinek

Sound Objects/Artistic Equipment: Patrizia Ruthensteiner

Voice/Text Recordings:  Dante Murillo, Anna Maria Nowak, Luke Baio

Dramaturgy Assistant: Judith Thaler

Theory/Text: Stefan Grissemann

Stage Management: Roman Harrer

Company Management: Cornelia Lehner

Costume: Stefan Röhrle

Set Design: Franziska Zauner

Videodokumentation: Michael Loizenbauer, Judith Thaler

Liquid Loft is supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA 7) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture.

About Chris Haring

Chris Haring is choreographer and Artistic Director of the performance company Liquid Loft. His main sources of inspiration are science fiction and the view of the body as a cybernetic landscape. Posing Project B –The Art of Seduction was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Performance at the Venice Biennale in 2007. In 2010, he received the "Outstanding Artist Award—Performing Arts" of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture. He has developed choreographies for international groups such as Jin Xing Dance Theatre (Shanghai), Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Contemporary

Ballet Moscow, Balletto di Roma, and Balé da Cidade de São Paulo.

About Liquid Loft