Thoughts have ascended to the outer top of your head and this hat doesn’t serve as a proper container anymore. You roll out of bed every morning; migraine and tight tongue. You skim the fridge for 2 seconds. Another minute passes. You are ready for a glass of water.
In AIRCON we follow a person at work; airhandling. Simply put, their job is to care for the air through the maintenance of airways and air containers.
AIRCON deals with the displacement of language and meaning, set in a universe of air conditioning. Through tactile notions and symbolic, physical and material logics of air, it deals with the inability of language to capture lived experience. In it we witness the complexity of work and labor connected to meaning making, exploring the gap between systems of bureaucracy.
AIRCON is a collection of dances. It adresses air conditioning, air and bureaucracy as sociopolitical material — how climate control choreographs bodies, labour, and institutional time and space.
With
Ella Östlund - dancer
Subletvis / Moritz Nahold - sound advisor
Ella Östlund - dancer
Quim Bigas - dramaturge / mentor
as well as
Graham Adey - photography
Graham Adey - photography
The music is sampled from Anna Von Hausswollfs album Theatre of Nature (2020).