Maria Rutanen
Fragments of the ocean
Concept and artistic direction:
Maria Rutanen
Performance and co-creation:
Joséphine Auffray, Dina Sennhauser, Maria Rutanen
Voice:
Maria Rutanen and Joséphine Auffray
Sound:
Lars Bösch
9.9.23 Floating University Berlin
in collaboration with Netzwerk Klima/Krise/Klitoris supported by Fonds Darstellen Künste, Prozessförderung
photo@Marie Baumgarten
"Invertebrates, gelatine textures, predators, hydrothermal vents, noise pollution, melting glaciers, plastic bags, sinking, undulating, bonding, squirting, holding the breath, hallucinating, weeping with whales, free falling from the surface into depths, floating the past 500 million years,
FRAGMENTS OF THE OCEAN IS A PERFORMANCE MADE FOR URBAN WATERSCAPES. It takes the audience on a somatic-sensory journey, wading through wetlands, diving from the surface to the bodily and watery depths, from light to dark. The work highlights the diversity, similarity and unknown of marine life and the human need to experience becoming breathless, a drop in the sea. The layers of the sea are explored by embodying marine life, the textures of the water within ourselves, straining through noise pollution, vocalizing with whales and mourning those we have lost in the sea, of all kinds.