Dissolved
Visually arresting and psychologically absorbing, Dissolved allows performers and audiences in different parts of the world to merge and occupy each other, in a doubled space that is half physical, half virtual. The space created is complex, ambiguous and beguiling. A door opens wide in one space as it slams shut in another. A wall both exists and doesn’t, putting up an invisible barrier. People and objects find they are both one thing and another, sometimes dissolving together to make a third, in a meditation on the other as being present in their absence and the instability of personal identity.
The production connected the Beaconsfield Gallery in London and the Sophiensaele in Berlin, in a collaboration between Station House Opera and Berlin-based artists Florian Feigl and Christopher Hewitt.
With Florian Feigl, Yoko Ishiguro, Julian Maynard Smith, Claudia Splitt, Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, Martin Tomlinson
“Dissolved….investigates the ways in which the telematic might offer a productive space of in-between that challenges our notions of authentic presence against questions of materiality and physicality; embedded within this, there’s also a really exciting, thrilling performance language (what happens when you mix German postmodern theatre with British live art?) that implicates a lot of questions about community, communication and what we take to authentic.”
Diana Damian, Exeunt
“I thought about gender and race and sexuality and representation. And what it meant when performers’ faces were “mixed” like this. And what the mirroring meant. Actually, I ended up going into several profitable streams of consciousness while watching.”
Andrew Haydon, Postcards From The Gods
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Beaconsfield Gallery, London and Sophiensaele, Berlin
An Artsadmin production, 2014
