Under Dansens dag - 23 medverkade Hedda som performer i Salvage Rhythms (Sam Williams). Verket visades under 2 timmar på Götaplatsen (Göteborg) som en del av eventet Humanography, organiserat av Dance Remainings.
Concept and choreography :
Sam Williams https://sam-w.com/
Performed by:
Christian Hüls
Oliver Mahar
Hedda Parkkonen
Berith Stennabb
The work was presented outdoors for the first time during/as a part of #Humanograpghy2023 organized by Danceremainings
Salvage Rhythms is part of a series of works which use live performance, film, text and collage to explore what we as humans can learn about new-world-building from observing the multispecies entanglements we are a part of. Specifically, how the other critters, organisms and intelligences we share this planet with come together in hidden, surprising and dynamic ways to form networks and create ways of surviving in increasingly damaged landscapes (for example how trees of the same species send messages to one another via networks of mycorrhizal fungi, enabling them to warn of potential danger or share nutrients; or how the matsutake mushroom thrives in forests disturbed by human activity).
Conceptually and choreographically it uses ideas based on symbiosis, sympoiesis and parasitism to produce ever changing structures, rhythms and compositions. Each iteration is part of an ongoing process of entanglement between bodies attempting to survive within a damaged landscape. Through the development of tasks and gestures seen established at the start of the process, we witness the bodies navigating, excavating and cultivating individual and shared spaces. In doing so they find ways to co-exist, cooperate and contaminate one another in both successful and failed attempts at survival, thriving and new-world building.
