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What if we were to understand the body not as a closed organism, but as an open network of relations?
POROUS MATTER is an interdisciplinary performance that explores the permeability – the porosity – of the body and its relationship to organisms beyond the human.
Developed by Anna Anderegg in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and artists, POROUS MATTER conceives of the body as a living community inhabited by microbes, fungi, and cell colonies that shape our metabolism, our perception, and our very being. The body is approached as an archive in which evolutionary memories, fossil traces, and microbiological stories are inscribed.
The performance unfolds at the intersection of physical and virtual worlds. Through the interplay of video, mirrors, and sound textures, the performers’ bodies merge with digital structures, multiply, fragment, and oscillate between solid and fluid states.
Through the combination of movement, sound, and image, an immersive space emerges – transforming like a living membrane: layered, breathing, and in constant transformation.
POROUS MATTER is an interdisciplinary performance that explores the permeability – the porosity – of the body and its relationship to organisms beyond the human.
Developed by Anna Anderegg in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and artists, POROUS MATTER conceives of the body as a living community inhabited by microbes, fungi, and cell colonies that shape our metabolism, our perception, and our very being. The body is approached as an archive in which evolutionary memories, fossil traces, and microbiological stories are inscribed.
The performance unfolds at the intersection of physical and virtual worlds. Through the interplay of video, mirrors, and sound textures, the performers’ bodies merge with digital structures, multiply, fragment, and oscillate between solid and fluid states.
Through the combination of movement, sound, and image, an immersive space emerges – transforming like a living membrane: layered, breathing, and in constant transformation.
Sat, June 13, 17:30 – 18:30 | EN
Prof. Dr. Adrian Egli (Director of the Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich) in conversation with Anna Anderegg (artist) under the moderation of Dr. Katharina Weikl (Head of Art x Science Office, UZH).
Sat, June 13, 17:30 – 18:30 | EN
The office is dead, long live the office! An olfactory farewell ritual to a space that could hardly be more unspectacular, yet shapes lifes and careers in sometimes absurd ways.
The site-specific installation performance ‘Dry Down’ invites you to a final Apéro in the office. Whether it's an open-plan space or at the end of a long corridor, the office is a place of regulated work, permeated by codes and hierarchies. Despite the many rules, the private sphere always pushes its way to the surface. Biographies are carved into height-adjustable desks, movement patterns are imprinted in fitted carpets, and interpersonal relationships shape the ergonomic chairs.
But what happens to this place when more and more people move to home offices or become digital nomads? When the private sphere no longer seeps into the workspace, but work creeps into the private sphere? The office begins to rot, lying fallow, ready to die. In ‘Dry Down’, lamentations and smells carry its demise, and the audience is invited to a farewell and a celebration of what remains.
Credits
Performance, Choreography: Bea Nichele & Tejus Menon
Sound, Performance: Mira Hirtler
Styling: Nadine Räber
Scent: Manon Cloé Gäschlin
Production Assistance: Gian Lindegger
Technical Support Sound: Rolf Laureijs
Outside Eye: PRICE
Scientific Support: Prof. Dr. Georg Bauer, Public & Organizational Health, University of Zurich
Concept, Artistic Direction: Eulalie Déguénon, Lucia Salomé Gränicher, Noé Wetter
About the artists
Eulalie Déguénon, Lucia Salomé Gränicher and Noé Wetter share a desire to understand space as an actor. Between installation and performance, their work is dedicated to the sensory mediation of existing everyday spaces. Together with invited artists, they are searching for experiences in which slight sensory distortions shift one’s attention.
‘Dry Down – Requiem for a Lost Room’ is a collaboration with the Art x Science Office at the University of Zurich.
Supported by
Kanton Zürich - Fachstelle Kultur, Aargauer Kuratorium, Elisabeth Weber Stiftung, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Fonds des Werkraums Warteck pp, Casa di Rosa
Stadt Zürich Kultur
The site-specific installation performance ‘Dry Down’ invites you to a final Apéro in the office. Whether it's an open-plan space or at the end of a long corridor, the office is a place of regulated work, permeated by codes and hierarchies. Despite the many rules, the private sphere always pushes its way to the surface. Biographies are carved into height-adjustable desks, movement patterns are imprinted in fitted carpets, and interpersonal relationships shape the ergonomic chairs.
But what happens to this place when more and more people move to home offices or become digital nomads? When the private sphere no longer seeps into the workspace, but work creeps into the private sphere? The office begins to rot, lying fallow, ready to die. In ‘Dry Down’, lamentations and smells carry its demise, and the audience is invited to a farewell and a celebration of what remains.
Credits
Performance, Choreography: Bea Nichele & Tejus Menon
Sound, Performance: Mira Hirtler
Styling: Nadine Räber
Scent: Manon Cloé Gäschlin
Production Assistance: Gian Lindegger
Technical Support Sound: Rolf Laureijs
Outside Eye: PRICE
Scientific Support: Prof. Dr. Georg Bauer, Public & Organizational Health, University of Zurich
Concept, Artistic Direction: Eulalie Déguénon, Lucia Salomé Gränicher, Noé Wetter
About the artists
Eulalie Déguénon, Lucia Salomé Gränicher and Noé Wetter share a desire to understand space as an actor. Between installation and performance, their work is dedicated to the sensory mediation of existing everyday spaces. Together with invited artists, they are searching for experiences in which slight sensory distortions shift one’s attention.
‘Dry Down – Requiem for a Lost Room’ is a collaboration with the Art x Science Office at the University of Zurich.
Supported by
Kanton Zürich - Fachstelle Kultur, Aargauer Kuratorium, Elisabeth Weber Stiftung, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Fonds des Werkraums Warteck pp, Casa di Rosa
Stadt Zürich Kultur
Sat, June 13, 20:00 – 21:30 | EN