Jefta van Dinther "REMACHINE"

Fri 26. & Sat 27.01., 19.30h

"In life, we often feel as if we are both autonomous beings making choices and cogs in a system, governed by greater worldly forces. "REMACHINE" stages this inner friction, a space of limbo." – Jefta van Dinther

"REMACHINE" explores the interplay between humans and an inescapable hyper-mechanised environment. At the mercy of their own technology, the dancers navigate the unstable ground under their feet. The performance unravels as a chain of cause and effect. In a cascade of both worldly and otherworldly forces, a dance between constraint and liberty, labour and ritual, emerges as a contradictory state of contemporaneity. Via a powerful orchestration of both vocal and physical material and in a new collaboration with composer Anna von Hausswolff, "REMACHINE" draws its viewer into a meditation on discipline, relentlessness, insatiability, and the power of the mind over the body.

Artist Talk following the performance on Fri, 26.01. Astrid Peterle (head of curatorial programming at Kunsthalle Wien) in conversation with Jefta van Dinther. The talk will be held in English and translated into Austrian Sign Language.