Austria
Liquid Loft
Choreographed by Chris Haring, Hannah Timbrell and Dong Uk Kim
Directed by Chris Haring
2024
10.18, 20:00
10.19, 20:00
10.20, 20:00
Studio Theatre of the Grand Theatre
Duration: 60 minutes (without intermission)
Without dialogue or subtitles
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
The Austrian Performance Company Liquid Loft was founded in 2005 by choreographer Chris Haring together with musician Andreas Berger, dancer Stephanie Cumming and dramaturge Thomas Jelinek in Vienna. Inspired by science-fiction literature and cyborg theory, Liquid Loft's work reflects how our perception and bodies are transformed through visual media and the everyday use of technology. With their methods of deconstructing dancing movement material and shifting acoustic levels, Liquid Loft opens up new choreographic terrain and places contemporary dance in a shared context with other contemporary art forms. Their idiosyncratic visual and formal language, the distinctive acoustic stage sets and the professional dance implementation have earned Liquid Loft international acclaim
and awards, such as the Golden Lion for Best Performance at the Venice Biennale 2007