Luminous Structure: A Participatory Multispecies Performance

Fri Apr 10 2026 at 01:00 pm to 02:30 pm UTC-04:00

2 W 13th St | New York

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Luminous Structure: A Participatory Multispecies Performance
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andrea haenggi and urban moss invites participants to join with moss gathered from beneath the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City
About this Event

organizedby the multispecies lab

andrea haenggi and urban moss: Luminous Structure: A Participatory Multispecies Performance
Friday, April 10th | 1:00 PM

Location: Meet in the Lobby of 2 West 13th Street- by the red circular couches

Join us for a participatory performance co-created by andrea haenggi and urban moss, where human bodies and moss come together to explore displacement, energy and multispecies connection.

Luminous Structure takes root in a performance score co-created through a long-term dance practice between urban moss and andrea haenggi. The work invites participants to join with moss gathered from beneath the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City, where it is regularly dislodged through vibration, pollution, and power-washing. Together, urban moss and human participants enact a multispecies performance score attentive to relation, displacement, and change.

The choreography follows moss structures with no beginning or end, forming a connected multispecies body in continuous transformation. Within the unfolding score, moss circulates among the participants—carried, placed on the body, or gently watered—as humans and moss remain in relation to one another and to the courtyard ecology.


Participation

Participants register in advance and take part directly in the Luminous Structure performance score.

  • Participant arrival: 1:00 PM (required)
  • Participants gather at 1:00 PM for a 30-minute attunement and introduction to the performance score.
  • Multispecies Performance: 1:30–2:15 PM followed by 15 minute discussion

No prior dance experience is required. Please wear comfortable clothes.

Those who prefer not to participate directly are welcome to witness the multispecies performance as viewers. Because the work takes place outdoors, passersby may also encounter the performance.


Agenda

🕑: 01:00 PM
Participant arrival: attunement and introduction to the performance score
Host: andrea haenggi and urban moss
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM
Collective performance: andrea haenggi and urban moss with participants
🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:30 PM
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

2 W 13th St, 2 West 13th Street, New York, United States

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