Speculations

Imagination, speculation and description, three differently charged modes of address, are in this presentation used to develop ideas in front of an audience. The spectator is not directly participating in the performance but is never the less playing an active role in the encounter. Ideas around artificial nature, catastrophic constructions and the autonomy of objects are being processed through talking, gesturing and moving. Speech and physical actions are given equal value, while being used to materialize a virtual performance within the mind of the spectator.

Premiered in 2011 at Moving Agenda Festival, Århus

The Artificial Nature Series

Speculations is one of five works in The Artificial Nature Series created between 2009 – 2012. The interest in fictionalizing and choreographing natural phenomena started with evaporated landscapes, a performance installation devoid of human presence where the act of performing itself was given over to materials like bubbles, foam, fog, sounds and light. In 2010 and 2011 The Extra Sensorial Garden and  The Light Forest followed. In the latter spectators were invited to wander through a dark forest following LED lights that had been installed in trees as a way of dramatizing and fictionalizing the natural landscape and environment. In 2011 the interests in non-human agency developed through Speculations; a discursive practice performance using language to conceptually prefigure The Artificial Nature Project that concluded the series in 2012.

Concept & Performance: Mette Ingvartsen
Production Management: Kerstin Schroth

A production of Mette Ingvartsen/ Great Investment

Support: Summer Intensive 2011 organized by Christine De Smedt/les ballets C de la B & DOCH (University of dance and circus, Stockholm)

Mar 1, 2017 9:12 AM

2017

March 1 - 2 Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna
Feb 23, 2017 9:12 AM February 23 - 25 HAU1 Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
Nov 25, 2016 9:12 AM

2016

November 25 Nanterre-Amandiers Centre Dramatique National
May 15, 2016 9:12 AM May 15 Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
Oct 16, 2015 9:12 AM

2015

October 16 Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
Mar 20, 2015 9:12 AM March 20 Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Nov 7, 2014 9:12 AM

2014

November 7 Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, UK
Mar 8, 2014 9:12 AM March 8 Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium
Jan 24, 2014 9:12 AM January 24 Ufertstudios, Berlin, Germany
Sep 19, 2013 9:12 AM

2013

September 19 Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
Aug 29, 2013 9:12 AM August 29 Reykjavik, Iceland
Apr 18, 2013 9:12 AM April 18 - 19 MDT, Stockholm, Sweden
Dec 19, 2012 9:12 AM

2012

December 19 Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium
Sep 27, 2012 9:12 AM September 27 BUDA, Kortrijk, Belgium
Apr 1, 2012 9:12 AM April 1 Tanzfabrik, Berlin, Germany