Kishkindha NY - Phasing Bodies'

A Dance Happening-
danza, videoarte, musica

Palazzo Michiel, Venice Italy
Thursday June 15, 5-6:30pm (Giovedì 15 giugno, 17-18:30)

As part of the O(U)R exhibit (Kishkindha, NY) on view at
“TIME - SPACE - EXISTENCE”
Venice Biennial Architecture Exhibition
European Cultural Centre - Venice, Italy

O(U)R has commissioned a dance group in Venice called STORMO to perform a Dance-Happening around the theme of Kishkindha NY. It will be choreographed by the noted dancer, Carla Marazzato. The event will take place at 5 PM at the Palazzo Michiel in Venice. It is free and open to the public, but audience size is limited. If interested, contact O(U)R.

O(U)R in collaboration with C.T.R. Centro Teatrale di Ricerca – Venezia

Featuring STORMO
Choreographer: Carla Marazzato
Assistant: Federica Chiuch

Music by Elias Jarzombek

Short Length Video (12:32)

Video credit: Giulio Nardocci

Video Libretto (42:00)

Video Credit: Jack Colton

Music: Elias Jarzombek

Dance Happening Program

Full Length Video (41:22)

Kishkindha NY

A speculative-fiction work, Kishkindha NY (exhibited in Palazzo Bembo) reimagines New York as a multi-species ‘forest-city’. It is not a ‘design proposal’ but an ‘epic’. It is intended to provoke a radical reimagining, a conversation on how we live on our planet as a response to the climate emergency, Its inspirations are indigenous, global and posthuman.

The agent of change is a sci-fi inspired ‘beastie’ that is part mechanical and part fungus/octopus.

Today we walk and drive. In Kishkindha NY, they say, we all dance. Today’s performance enacts this transformation.

ACT ONE: UMBRA. We begin by observing the death of the contemporary city, the end of the ancient imaginary as the locus of civilization.

ACT TWO: DNA molecules disintegrate and recombine to form a new interspecies. We see octopus, mushrooms and tree roots. The ‘beastie’ is created.

ACT THREE: Above ground, the ‘beastie’ transforms the city. Spores are released. It destroys and rebuilds. The old city metabolizes into the forest city. Human consciousness, locked into momentarily, rewires.

ACT FOUR: BALANDO. We can no longer walk. We can only dance. Moving in curves, tangents, and parabolas, we leave our homes and gather in the forest-street for joyous reaffirmation of life.

The epic has begun.