Linda Boļšakova

Is it possible to dance with the geological? If we consider dance to be the movement of material embodiments, aren’t we already dancing? These questions are especially pertinent as we move into the era of the Anthropocene, where human actants are part of geologic processes. This work grinds on the clear-cut distinction between the sculptural and the performative, dissolving boundaries into intra-active relationality. The work is a speculative warm-up exercise for this dance, which takes place across times and rhythms larger than our single lifetime. It is both an impossibility and what we’re already part of. The work unfolds as a durational, participatory performative space in which human and geological bodies co-create with one another, inviting audiences into an embodied engagement with geological time. The performance has grown out of embodied engagement with Icelandic geothermal sites. We invite you to entangle in these warm material intimacies and ongoing thermodynamic reincarnations.

Linda Boļšakova: I am an interdisciplinary, research-based artist working with installation and performance. I work with relationality as the essential structure of being and imagine futures of more sustainable coexistence. Acknowledging the vibrancy and equality of material embodiments, be they human or more-than-human, the developed work is often sculptural, but it is a sculpture that is attuned to the changing nature of things; sculpture that is, in this sense, always a performance. My work has been presented at the Latvian National Museum of Art (2023) and Kunsthalle Bratislava (2023), and has been shown in exhibitions and performance festivals in Latvia and internationally. I am currently involved in a four-year EU project with the New Theatre Institute of Latvia (Homo Novus festival) and Ķemeri National Park. My practice is informed by international residencies and collaborations with scientists, ecologists, and environmental researchers.

Dancers:
Rebekka Guðmundsdóttir
Cristina Agueda
Ólöf Ingólfsdóttir
Snædís Lilja Ingadóttir

Fragrance by Eeva-Liisa Puhakka

When:
February 5th from 15:00-18:00
Durational performance. People can walk in and out of the space during these hours.

Where:
L221, LHÍ
Laugarnesvegur 91, 105 Reykjavík