Photos: David Payr
In collaboration with visual artist Michel Blazy, temporary biotopes are created for a certain period of time in different locations. Paris-based Michel Blazy pays attention to the small, unimposing things of daily life. With materials from building supply stores, agriculture stores and supermarkets, he develops micro-cosmical models, utopian scenarios like a Jules Vernes of the arts. His working methods reflect his motto ‘becoming and decaying’ and his interest in circles, cycles and time. The sound environment by Andreas Berger is a constitutive part of Liquid Loft’s work; the performers’ physical sound field is constantly altered and transformed. Every stage-production, from the very moment of its conception, goes hand in hand with the creation of acoustic settings.
The Perfect Garden experiments with with movement and organic growth. The set by Michel Blazy follows this logic of growth. The things growing and thriving here metaphorically remind of economics. Like the way the economics of sensitivities climbs and grows into the bodies, and through the bodies. And there is no stopping the comfort as it starts nesting in these bodies, feeding on them and digesting them. The dancers follow this process of digesting possible identities, as do the soundscapes provided by Andreas Berger. These sounds never hesitate to incorporate a wide spectrum of compositional figures and processes as well as electronic particles and noises which play the field of associations and oscillate between a machinery of sensitivities, primal screams and soundscapes from everyday ambiances.
MODULAR PERFORMANCE
The Perfect Garden is a series of modular performances, which means that the various performance modules developed in different places are interlaced with each other. The first station of this series, WELLNESS, was created for the Palmenhaus (Greenhouse) in Vienna’s Burggarten for Impulstanz Vienna International Festival. For further locations we are developing performances with different visual and topical focuses, whilst incorporating the architectural characteristics of a place. Along the way, we meet absurd, but vivid characters on stage. As abstract as these creatures may appear, they relentlessly carve their way through time and space.
Read more about the single modules
WELLNESS: The Perfect Garden