In offnature artists Deborah Hazler, Nanina Kotlowski and Olivia Schellander follow the trails of the grotesque body. Based on the media’s sexualisation of the human body, where there’s often a very thin line between disgust and desire, the performers guide the audience through a perceptual house of mirrors which opens up a multitude of new perspectives on the body. They explore the (im)possibility of independently representing certain parts of it and disconnecting them from their sexual connotations. They aspire to enable the audience to find a direct way of viewing the body rather than emphasising the sensational display of such. An intimate spectacle working on its de-sexualisation and around the question of whether it can ever be free from desire and revulsion.
Concept: Deborah Hazler
Choreography & performance: Deborah Hazler, Nanina Kotlowski, Olivia Schellander
Lighting design: Veronika Mayerböck
Outside Eye: Anke Phillip
A co-production of Raw Matters Wien and imagetanz/brut Vienna
With support of PACT Zollverein, Essen, and the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs
Premiere: 5 March 2012, imagetanz/brut Vienna
Review (Der Standard)