[AfterWorld] Album for Endo-Financial™ Tuning and LARVA

With the 19th edition of the festival Improspections, temporarily renamed as AfterWorld, we mark five years since the official start of the Covid-19 pandemic, in aftereffects of which we continue to live, work through, and create within. Five years later, we reflect on the forms of artistic, dance, theoretical, and organizational practices, survival, thought, and feeling shaped in and by post-pandemic material and its affective conditions. Five years later we witness daily the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Five years later amid the rise of censorship in the cultural field we do not turn our eyes from this reality.

In this political moment we are continuing our exploration of improvisation as both an artistic and life practice, we turn towards artistic expressions that resist and break through form. Our focus is on affirming artistic practices on the margins of dance and at the boundaries of performance disciplines. We attune to the rhythm of change and disruption—a rhythm that French philosopher Catherine Malabou refers to as destructive plasticity: a transformation that violently reshapes matter into a new state, irreconcilable with the one preceding it.

Through the festival program named AfterWorld, we gather dance and interdisciplinary artists and cultural practitioners of broad interests, who engage with the spaces between dance, poetry, game, text, and performance. AfterWorld is a conceptual, theoretical, and methodological framework. Embracing enigmatic, magical, and broadly material practices, we imagine a festival program open to fabulation, and see the space of performance and dance as a site of connection with the invisible, the unknown, the non-existent, the unspeakable, the unclear, and the non-living.

17/10 at 7pm
Močvara

Album for Endo-Financial™ Tuning
Peter Scherrebeck / Misty Superdeluxe
screening

Album for Endo-Financial™ Tuning is an audiovisual choreographic album. The album offers an alternative approach to dealing with late capitalism, creating a scientific and theatrical New Age tool that aims to break with the money system as we know it. Each track on the album is produced in a specific musical keynote that stimulates a specific gland or energetic centre of the body. The songs aim to tune the energetic and financial body of the audience to create mental wealth.

Performance and Concept: Peter Scherrebeck / Misty Superdeluxe
Music production: Ari Merten

Peter Scherrebeck (aka Misty Superdeluxe) is a choreographer and performer based in between Denmark and The Netherlands. Misty works as part of different artist collectives, has performed for numerous other artists and has shown own work in places such as Dansehallerne, (CPH), Frascati Theatre,(AMS), Kunstinstituut Melly, (RTM), Veem House for Performance, (AMS).

17/10 (after the screening)
Pogon Jedinstvo - small hall

LARVA
Lana Lehpamer @grizina123 @queeranarchive
performance

The Larva Cycle is an ongoing project by Lana Lehpamer, whose third part – Consumption – is presented here, in the AfterWorld. The cycle began with Arrival, the 24-hour performance Bog Body (2022), in which the artist materialized an unattainable fictional spirit within a body sewn from nylon stockings and filled with 20 litres of soil. Its second part, Preparation – an overflowing deformation of the earlier body (installed at the 37th Youth Salon) – used the same materials to figuratively “prepare the meat” for the next stage: Consumption. With Consumption, the artist continues the act of creating a body by consuming corporeality – her own or a fictional one understood as activity – thus literally embodying Judith Butler’s statement: “one is not a body, one does a body.” The body becomes hungry and acquires a voice, intertwining with the artist’s own. Its life narrative unfolds through poetry, through which the artist translates the needs and intentions of the fictional spirit. Themes of weight, tension, strain, ambiguity, uncertainty, mutual influence, interpenetration, and the blurring of skin boundaries read as elements in this performance.