Oscillating Beasts and other revelations by Beate Poikane and Clea Filippa, sound by Andrejs Poikans.

Performance (0’45) was priemered at Ostre, Bergen, Norway as part of Bergen International Theatre Teatergarasjen program ‘Prøverommet’, December 2022.

In the work, we are exploring performative qualities of objects, how new poetic functions can be activated through interaction with human bodies and what conversations they can have with each other and the space they are placed in. Work emerges from wanderings in cityscape and observations of urban scenes – collecting imagery and materials. In the performing process a new landscape is constructed of familiar and unfamiliar shapes, recomposing objects and images from our surrounding environment. We explore non-hierarchical ways of performing with objects, seeing objects as active participants, with their own agency, to unfold the potential of multiplicity. Through our performative exploration we touch upon object oriented ontology and new materialism ideas. Another point of reference for us is symbolism in 19ce painting and literature – seeing anthropomorphic characters in nature elements, we try to see what happens when you apply this gaze to industrial, man made objects.

Video is a montage of documentation from the performance and fragments from video projections.