Heavyware presents: MACRO-PLASTIC.
HEAVYWARE is a transdisciplinary duo formed to experience a shared way of creating and engage with the future of dance performance through collaboration. It consists of Alexandra Bierlaire and Gian Sanghera-Warren, combining research on plastic materiality with an emphasis on contemporary cultural memory and digital trends.
After a month-long residency supported by Vaisseau Mère in Brussels, Heavyware has presented the beginning of a new project MACRO-PLASTIC, a video-based performance and installation. MACRO-PLASTIC explores the build-up of plasticity inside the body as an analogy for transformation and a coping mechanism for the dystopia of our current and future realities. Responding to the social media hysteria and the memified apathy towards microplastics, they present a medical procedure set 200 years in the future, exploring the fictitious inner reality of a specimen’s body as a space wherein the micro becomes macro.
MACRO-PLASTIC has been performed at the opening of KOOI by Vaisseau Mère in Brussels, as well as the Mutation Festival in Gent, supported by Curating The Young.
Photos by Eden Million.
About
Creative work
- The mollusc has no concept of Buddha
- The C shape of your hand like peanut butter on the roof of my mouth
- The body documents
Performance work
- THE DEATH AT THE CLUB by Candela Capitán at Conde Duque Madrid
- Fold. Fall. Nest. by Susan Sentler
- Sister You Said by Sarah Meth & Sal Redpath
- Closer by Talk Show, Directed by Asher Lloyd
- Tessell8 by Phil Sanger and Fernanda Prata
- The Present Part by Jean Abreu
- Res Gesta by Gabriel Annouka
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