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About the performance
It Doesn’t Look Like Anything To Me
by Jules Fischer & Josefine Opsahl
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JUNE 23rd
21.00
Choreography: Jules Fischer. Performers: Andreas Haglund, Beck Heiberg, Jupiter Child, Thjerza Balaj. Composer: Josefine Opsahl. Cello: Andrew Power. Costumes: Camilla Lind. Commissioned for Enter art fair 2022 as part of the program “Tales of love and fight” curated by Irene Campolmi. Special thanks to original cast members: Sall Lam Toro & Hrafnhildur Marta
Guðmundsdóttir. Photo: Julie Nymann.
The title refers to the sci-fi series Westworld, where the hosts (robots) use the phrase:” it doesn’t look like anything to me” as a fail-save response in encounters which make them question their own reality. Choreographically the piece is the beginning of a bigger investigation of masculinity and patriarchy. The movement material is searching for vulnerability, softness, and collectivity in found material from sports, movies, and folk dance. The music is an elegant negotiation between a live cello and electronic loops constructing a filmic and epic soundscape.
The composition lets us feel the organic and emotional body rub against the strict and minimal electronic loops. The piece is playing with ambivalence and illegibility as an escape from binaries, while questioning hegemony is a “natural” trait.
Jules Fischer is a visual artist and choreographer. Their practice is centered around large-scale performances and creating immersive experiences through different media, a multitude of perspectives, senses, and bodies. Basic feelings such as love, loneliness, and grief, are often central for Jules, but always from an ambivalent and queer perspective.
Josefine Opsahl is a composer and artist. Extending her background in classical music into contemporary medias of expression, her works unfold in the intersection between tradition and renewal, the analogue and the synthetic. With an emphasis on tactility, movement and virtuosity she pushes the limits of what genres and artistic expressions can be focusing on renewing larger formats like the opera, the ballet and symphonic sound worlds.
