The performance shows the sympoietic life of three cyborgs, called ulva intestinalis (sea lettuce). Our daily work contains rituals of care which must be enacted more extensively due to nowadays politics of wage work, domestic labor, reproduction, and the expropriation and sexualization of bodies of women. Nature and women being exploited calls for a radical, social and economic transformation which we call for with the bodily expression of our personal memories and emotions about work, resistance and frustration.
Sophia Horak is a queer-feminist performance artist in the fields of contemporary and community dance. She has graduated in the Masters of Biotechnology and focused on microbial communities, cell communication and symbiosis. In her current studies in Experimental Arts, Space- and Design Strategies and Science Technology Society, she does research and dance pieces on embodied knowledge-making, collective somatic practices and body politics. Her passion is grounded within the multispecies aspect of our environment, connecting the human and non-human with concepts like sympoietic thinking, senti-pensar (feeling-thinking together) and the commons.
Julia Bauer is a dancer with many years of experience in dance theatre, jazz, hip hop, and contemporary dance. Her work centers around autobiographical narratives of women with migration experience, addressing themes of identity, belonging, and origin.Her artistic focus lies in combining contemporary movement languages with interdisciplinary formats that engage with socially relevant topics in performative spaces.
