Under Armour (working title)

"Under Amour" is an experimental lecture performance departing from dance, as a interspecies crossroad. Inspired by the fearless dance of the jumping spider, ready to be eaten up by its beloved, spectating other, the work embarks on a chaotic journey tracing different legacies of embodiment, as a means to rerun the erotic desire of being eaten alive and the urgency of dancing in the face of societal collapse. Dance and embodiment are tested towards their historical link towards drill and military, such as their mechanism to ensure survival, allowing to collectively process and tend to one another. Plotting imaginations by appropriating academic theories and situating them in the body, "Under Armour" is an emotional and inquisitive performance that juggles in between movement, voice, lecturing and overthinking, all the while hunting for a bodily state attempting to carry the information and create a bodily interiority to hold their implications. Strategically inviting the Cartesian dualism as a core wound, "Under Armour" creates a half eroding, half emergent force field where information clash, collapse and attempt to make sense. "Maybe we knew we would never come out of this “healthy”, or "healed". Maybe we used it like some sort of cure, an intersection of openings and bendings, re arrangements of a world beyond sick and healthy. for the time being its been clear that I do, the thing I call dance, can somehow do the reprogramming. At least sometimes. Not a gesture to “bring the change” but a much more subtle and meta-substantial gesture needed for me, to make sense of that what I otherwise cannot bare to look at, bare to sit with, bare to stand upright facing, carry with me along, mute and merciless, against the ticking time framing my live. Back to the orang utan that can heal itself.. Researchers also say we have been given our emotions from our animal ancestors. Our emotions were there before we existed, and we are a consequence of them. How do you make sense of that you are coming from feeling?-This next scene is called European failure.“ Heart Break Radio Heart break radio is a short range radio, installed and broadcasted at and around Framer Framed. The radio show takes Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, “Broken Heart Syndrome” as entrance point to discuss intimate perspectives around the question "what breaks your heart and how do you mend it?" Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy is a special case amongst heart disease, mostly triggered by the sudden receiving of extremely painful news regarding a loved one. Defying the cartesian dualism intrinsic to the western medical model, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy invites for a renewed understanding how body and mind are interlinked to one another. It further expands the notion of what our physical and emotional conditions can teach us about the interconnections of human social systems and their direct material consequences on our physical and emotional health. Aimed at disclosing the conversations sparked by and through embodied practices, such as dancing, the radio show devices and speculates on ideas on why we carry a 1,5 m wide electro magnetic field, generated from our hearts, that can be possibly imagined as a personal, integrated radio transmitter and receiver. The two shows will also feature Planetary poetics classmates interviews on answering the guiding question of the show through perspectives on their artistic projects and practices. This radio show is rooted in research I conducted for my acupuncture thesis of my final study year at Shenzhou Open University, investigating Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy through a TCM perspective.