Warp Renderings
Performance · Premiere
by
Sergiu Matis
In the frame of FEMINIST FUTURES WEEKEND
In this new solo work, Sergiu Matis explores how aestheticised images of landscapes have distorted contemporary society’s relationship to the natural world – from European landscape painting traditions to photography, satellite imagery, CGI and virtual reality.
«Warp Renderings» proposes different ways to access the natural environment, by revisiting and investigating the ideological twists that it has been subjected to in the past. These distortions are exaggerated to the point of rupture, cracking and warping the canvas and the screen, and creating fissures in the body, making it permeable and able to resonate with the natural elements it represents.
Perhaps through this breaking of traditions – this conceptual vandalism – we can repair and restore our connection with nature, allowing it to spill back at us, or at least, back into the dancing body.
08.06. Artist Talk after the performance
Accessibility
«Warp Renderings» proposes different ways to access the natural environment, by revisiting and investigating the ideological twists that it has been subjected to in the past. These distortions are exaggerated to the point of rupture, cracking and warping the canvas and the screen, and creating fissures in the body, making it permeable and able to resonate with the natural elements it represents.
Perhaps through this breaking of traditions – this conceptual vandalism – we can repair and restore our connection with nature, allowing it to spill back at us, or at least, back into the dancing body.
08.06. Artist Talk after the performance
Accessibility
The event takes place in Studio 5 and will be held mostly in English.
Studio 5 is accessible without steps, but has a raised wooden floor area accessible via a 1.5% inclined ramp. Wheelchair spaces are available. The barrier-free toilet is located in the foyer of the studio.
Content Note
The performance occasionally contains sudden, loud noises, which can be startling, and some moments of loud music.
If you have any further questions about the access requirements for this performance, please contact: access@tanzfabrik-berlin.de
Further information on accessibility can be found on our website: https://www.uferstudios.com/de/barrierefreiheit.
Sergiu Matis
Sergiu Matis (he/him) is a Romanian choreographer living in Berlin since 2008. He has created dance performances such as «Neverendings» (2017), «Hopeless.» (2019), «Extinction Room» (2019), «UNREST» (2021), «DRANG» (2022) and «Blazing Worlds» (2023). His work has been presented at festivals throughout Europe. Matis´ dance practice can be understood as a tireless search through physical and digitalised archives. His performances provoke intense experiences that break with expectations and strive towards a new understanding of dance.
Concept, choreography, performance: Sergiu Matis
Music: György Ligeti
Technical management: Andrea Parolin
Production: Philip Ingman
Co-produced by: Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE | Supported by: Performing Arts Institute (InSzPer) Warsaw as part of apap – FEMINIST FUTURES – a project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
