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"In its Entirety is a choreographic work in parts that never loses sight of the whole. Speech, voice, movement and sound overlap with personal affect and biography, perhaps even to be overwhelmed – by the ways in which the whole thing can collapse and yet be put back together from all the different pieces." - Philipp Gehmacher

How do we train our capacity to imagine futures that are otherwise? Do we see desire as a legitimate trigger for action towards the future? How are our pasts, presents and futures entangled and what stories do we tell of these entanglements? How do we navigate the multiple futures ahead of us?

Current protests and political debates have an influence on contemporary art forms, artists and audiences as well as institutions. How do these different actors respond to the multitude of pressing issues? What is the relationship between art and politics today?

How can a body begin to move when the relationship of this body with its surroundings constitutes a fundamentally precarious and vulnerable moment? A relationship that is easily thrown off balance and that can reveal our own limitations? In Precarious Moves, Michael Turinsky continues his research into choreographic gestures in the context of politically motivated aesthetical concepts.

Modernity was significant in shaping societies and in deciding what is to be defined as knowledge: in this process indigenous and popular knowledge were often consistently destroyed. Yet, these erased narratives still influence the present, towards local and global contexts. Ayur is the second part in a trilogy focusing on the semantics and mythologies of the Imazighen, the indigenous people of North Africa. The whole trilogy centres on female figures, as guardians of the transmission of Amazigh knowledge.

Everyone seems to be talking about the sea these days. In economic, political, military, technological and philosophical circles. Entire fields of research, the arts, film and video works are dedicated to the sea. The sea – it seems – is everybody’s darling. But what can the sea really offer?

Limina (plural of “limen”: a threshold in which a stimulus can be said to trigger a psychological or physiological response) attempts to slow down the perception of time through an immersive, hypnotic sensory environment that attunes the audience to listen deeply into the substructures of sonic phenomena.