Name: surbending – FASCIA & Andreas Haglund
Start: 2024-10-10T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-11T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Bergsgatan 29, 214 22 Malmö, Sweden

$surbending \u2013 FASCIA & Andreas Haglund$

𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴, 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘢𝘵𝘴, 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴, 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘧 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴. 𝘞𝘩𝘰’𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘰’𝘴 𝘺𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯? 𝘐𝘯 ‘𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨’ 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
DATES: 10–11/10 // DOORS: 18.30 // ON STAGE 19.00 // LENGTH: 45 min // LANGUAGE: NON/ENGLISH
Hormones, pills, white coats, demeaning looks, clear liquids and sterile walls in stiff waiting rooms. Bodies keep turning into what is hard enough to swallow, what is outside their control. Just one more shot, one more pill, one more interview, one more show. Semblances of control dissolve into surrendering, into bending. Who’s in charge when the walls are already built?
‘surbending’ is a collaborative performance project between choreographer Andreas Haglund and electronic music composer and programmer FASCIA. The piece explores how surrendering can contain strategies of subversion and survival. Inspired by their shared experience as queer people navigating healthcare, surbending teases out tensions of medical power. Hospitals make queer and trans lives possible while simultaneously robbing patients of self-determination and agency. Surrendering as the walls keep turning into ceilings, turning into floors, bending the waiting room into a mirror for self-realisation.
𝘉𝘐𝘖
FASCIA is an electronic composer, instrument designer and digital artist based in Malmö. Her work often entails using technology as prosthesis to enhance or transform human capabilities. For surbending, she has programmed webcams to track movement, using these to suspend the dancer in shifting power relations to the digital surveillance.
Andreas Haglund works as a dance artist and choreographer between Sweden and Denmark. They are a member of the artist-driven studio Dance Cooperative, a platform for 13 freelancing dance artists. In his own work he focuses on the somatic, material and aesthetic coherences between queer lived experience and the cultural conception of nature. On stage, in dance practice and in text.
𝘊𝘙𝘌𝘋𝘚
Choreography, performance: Andreas Haglund
Music, Sound, Programming: FASCIA
Light design: Will Zawistowski
Supported by Statens Kunstfond.
Developed in residence at Warehouse9 and HAUT.
With generous support from Dance Cooperative.