A hybrid sensual landscape emerges from and within a body feeding from the echoes of perception. A body of many bodies weaving multiple presences and spaces, nurturing relation, invoking from within the stories that move beyond. This is HYPERNURTURES, a place raising from the gut, where whispering and vociferous presences express themselves both softly and radically close in connection.
Artistic direction, choreography, performance Liv Schellander Sound design Natalia Domínguez Rangel Objects, set design Susanne Songi Griem Dramaturgical advice Costas Kekis Light design Sveta Schwin Project and costume assistance Daniel Nasr Camera/Video Claudia Lomoschitz Production management Strange Natures, Sophie Menzinger
A co-production by Strange Natures Verein and brut Wien. With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, Im_flieger, Bears in the Park, Veem House Amsterdam Exchange Residency, and Tender Steps Residency/Raw Matters.
HYPERNURTURES
In her new solo work, choreographer Liv Schellander explores the complex and vibrant relations within the cluster of human–animal–nature–spirit. Can we, as a presumably empathic species, acquire a deeper understanding of vitality, resilience, and connectivity by encountering non-human life forms? HYPERNURTURES sensitively weaves movement, voice, sound, and scenography into a hybrid sensual landscape.
HYPERNURTURES is part of Liv Schellander’s long-term series Strange Natures. A research that explores human contact with the more-than-human worlds and the potentials this brings forth for enhancing sensorial versatility and intuitive forms of knowing. Inspired by grief and hope for a ‘planet body’ in crisis, the project investigates perspectives of co-existence, ecological imagination, and the notion of hyper-objects: things that expand beyond our grasp, that lack reliable shapes and elude the distinction between nature and culture.