Yoh Morishita
Chrysalis
By fusing the animated and the inanimate, Yoh Morishita’s performance Chrysalis creates an incarnation of the absurd. We see a body infested with a variety of materials: mussels, horn, tentacles, synapses, tubers, claws, and rhizomes. This body is mutating all the time, nothing ever fits together. And it withstands the forces eager to eliminate diversity. It eludes oppression by altering its shape or slipping away from it altogether and leaving behind only skin. Like a pupated insect about to hatch.
In Chrysalis, Yoh Morishita ponders on how organisms and people change. She embodies a process of metamorphosis that perceives life as a dynamic equilibrium. Different types of movement appear simultaneously at the various body parts, creating a fatuous coherence of the animated and the inanimate. Existing orders are constantly being dissolved and created anew. Where will this slowly evolving sequence of images lead us? If change is the essence of life, how much do we allow ourselves to change? How do we feel about strange beings and objects? And who are ‘we’ anyway?
Chrysalis addresses and processes various questions around change. Lithuanian artist/composer Marija Jociūtė creates an electronic soundscape for the piece that inspires communication between all those involved. An uncanny world looms before us!
Yoh Morishita (born in Kobe, Japan in 1992) is a choreographer and performer currently based in Vienna. After graduating as a bachelor of arts in architecture in Kyoto, Japan, she studied contemporary dance in Austria and Belgium. Her work revolves around the visualisation of the unknown, inspired by theory, utopia, and sensation. In 2023, Morishita received the START scholarship for music and performing arts awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, the ATLAS scholarship at the ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna, and the scholarship Wiener ‘In the Field’ by Wiener Festwochen.
Marija Jociūtė (born in Lithuania in 1988) is an artist and composer who lives in Vienna. She has a master’s degree in art from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. In her work, which is research-oriented, she uses different media and techniques to reflect on scientific data and scrutinise the limits of empirical approaches. By changing and deconstructing such material, Jociūtė plays on the potential of storytelling and new definitions. In her sound work, she intertwines synthesizer, drum machines, computers, and effects as well as her own voice to create multi-faceted electronic and yet organic pieces of music.
Credits
Concept, performance Yoh Morishita Live sound and musik Marija Jociūtė Lighting design Leo Kuraitė Styling Lisa Knoll Outside Eye and Ear Camilla Schielin, Julia Müllner, Magdalena Forster, Dominik Morishita-Leitner
A co-production of imagetanz 2024/brut Wien, Yoh Morishita, and im_flieger.
With the kind support of the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport and the ImPulsTanz ATLAS programme.
Dates & Tickets
The performance on Tue, March 12th is followed by an artist talk.
March 2024
Sold out
Sold out / *Followed by an artist talk
Sold out
studio brut
Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
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