Mads Floor Andersen
Bound [Earthbound Series]
Bound begins with a Big Bang to then orbit around planets, memories, and the uncertainty inherent to change. How can we live with what we are unable to reverse? Mads Floor Andersen’s performance is a mesh of death, love, and the ties to what remains: to the story, to the aftermath. A dance at the sea and a fall between the stars. A personal story. An anthropocentric story. A cosmic story.
Mads Floor Andersen’s performance Bound links such themes as the consequences of change on a private and an ecological level. It’s a personal story about how we deal with the impact of conflicts, catastrophes, and decisions, describing the feeling of being paralysed and liberated, tied to contexts, relationships, and historic decisions or to unexplored landscapes still ahead of us.
The Danish performer tells an ecological story about climate change and the uncertainty inherent to future life on our planet. What should be done? What have we done? How do we cope with the consequences we have caused ourselves? ‘Stay with the trouble’, American scholar Donna Haraway suggests. But how can we do that and live regretting a past that cannot be undone? How can we exist in uncertainty about a future ahead of us? Where do we place our own history within the history and ecology of the universe? What is our relationship to the Big Bang and how everything came into existence? How do our choices, our lives, and our death float through space? Do they hover around over the Earth or drift in space like Major Tom?
Bound attempts to interweave the big issues of life with a very private story to create a cosmic narrative about how decisions and the history of relationships will affect both our personal environment and the overall ecology.
Mads Floor Andersen has developed a performance language that is about recycling, risk, rupture, ruination, ruins, and ‘response-ability’ (Donna Haraway) with regard to his environment. He explores the intimate relationship between body and ecology, the way they shape and affect one another, and the local and personal processes in which he lives and works. As a result, each of his pieces has its own specific constellation while at the same time touching on societal and ecological thoughts, theories, and practices. Mads Floor Andersen has presented his work internationally, such as at the Belfast International Festival of Performance Art, Northern Ireland; the Macau International Performance Art Festival, Macau; Transart Communication, Hungary; the Kolkata International Performance Art Festival, India; LAPSody, Finland: the Month of Performance Art Berlin, Germany; the International Festival of Performance Arts Copenhagen, Denmark; and many more.
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Credits
Created by and featuring Mads Floor Andersen Dramaturgy Sebastian Bechinger Stage management, lighting design Christoph Manss Video, photography Aled Ordu
A co-production of imagetanz 2024/brut Wien and Mads Floor Andersen.
With the kind support of Im_flieger, Bears in the Park and Arbeitsplatz – Verein zur Zurverfügungstellung von Arbeitsräumen für Tanz und Performance.
Dates & Tickets
The performance on Tue, March 19th will be followed by an artist talk.
March 2024
Choose your price category € 22/€ 16/€ 11
Choose your price category € 22/€ 16/€ 11 / *Followed by an artist talk
Choose your price category € 22/€ 16/€ 11
studio brut
Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
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