HAUNTED LANDSCAPES or the breathing out of earth
by Claudia Bosse / theatercombinat
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claudia bosse's performative landscape unfolds the skins of the earth into which humans dig themselves. haunted bodies encounter the layers of the planet and enter into a dialogue with them. sounds deform the lamenting bodies and wander through them, like the environments inhabited by the monsters of the past and present. as a continuation of the multi-part series haunted landscape/s, the encounters with wounded landscapes are bundled in a walk-in space in which the earth exhales.
with HAUNTED LANDSCAPES or the breathing out of earth, claudia bosse creates a space in which porous bodies, autobiographical texts, images and sounds condense into a plural structure. on unstable ground, the relationship between human and non-human actors becomes a walk-in assemblage of materials and remembrance. together with marcela san pedro, lena schattenberg, jianan qu, carla rihl and irwan ahmett in a soundscape by günther auer, the artist makes the enormous transformations of our planet tangible.
we
the leftovers
with our bodies we connect expand and learn
in reading and listening and marveling at the different languages
that we can hear
if we listen
listen to the space
of an amputated world
that connects
or expands and learns on what is left
which calls engages changes
a world in which WE
or our leftovers
become prostheses for other living beings
or vice versa
our planet is a living organism and covered with landscapes that visibly bear the signs of their encroachments, wars, climatic changes, the extraction of resources. HAUNTED LANDSCAPES or the breathing out of earth is dedicated to wounded landscapes and bodies and the human intervention in them. the landscapes change, shift, overlap, are used, excavated and destroyed. some of them are pervaded by ghosts that leave their traces in the layers of the earth and make them perceptible.
Credits:
choreography/text/space/objects/videos: claudia bosse
performance: marcela san pedro, lena schattenberg, carla rihl, jianan qu, irwan ahmett, claudia bosse
sound: günther auer
dramaturgy: adam czirak, krassimira kruschkova
costume: julia zastava
lighting: paul grilj
production/artistic assistance: larry meyer
photos/video setup/documentation: markus gradwohl
technical support / salt object: christopher schulz
production assistance: ines kaiser
press support: die kulturproduktion
communication: magdalena knor
thanks to liquifer systems group and alis jefimenko
a co-production of theatercombinat and tanzquartier wien. supported by the cultural department of the city of vienna and by federal ministry of arts, culture, public service and sport.