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The Orange Rest/Sacrifice” offers a Vitamin Boost and the possibility to rest and rejuvenate. Facilitated as a simple station to take a break from hectic life, oranges get prepared to be juiced by a curious visitor, resting on them. The Oranges may choose amongst themselves which one will be sacrificed ( the ones that crack open). Accompanied by softly performed whistling, a present guide imitates bird sound to help the oranges to move about, as in many cultures the bird is a psychopomp helping to overcome thresholds, from life into death. Meanwhile the rest, a juice will be prepared for the visitor.
“The Orange Rest/Sacrifice” is a former form, originally designed by Toni Steffens and Sigrid Stigsdatter for their work “Spinner”. Reflecting on the economy and after lives of performance materials, former forms acts as a recycling and reanimation method for practices, thoughts, such as concrete materials and staged scenes.
Booking info:
The installation is ongoing and interactive, suitable for indoors and outdoors. It is accessible to people with limited movability with the support of a caretaker. The oranges have to be organised on location.
Credits:
Concept development: Toni Steffens and Sigrid Stigsdatter
Performance development: Toni Steffens
Production and Support: Picnic Pavillon Venice, QRU Amsterdam, Fraslab Frascati Amsterdam, Dansmakers Amsterdam, 2019, Pact Zollverein Ateliers 2022
When a tadpole is growing into a frog, its electromagnetic field already holds the information of its legs and body shape. In the essay ‘TransMaterialities’ , Karen Barad refers to a (cruel) experiment,where the electromagnetic field of tadpoles were changed by scientists, which resulted in them growing additional limbs, eyes in different places and other bodily mutations. Following this experiment, scientists concluded that tadpole bodies do not have fixed or defined borders. They carry their suggested futures, just as our DNA, bones and cells carry our inherited pasts, eventually manifesting anew in future times to come. The space in the air, for tadpoles at least, is sensible, intelligent, loaded with information and very much subject to intervention, interaction, and, as the experiment shows, open, porous, vulnerable and corruptible. Space is a part of the process of being, likewise it is part or the extension of beings. Space is oftentimes thought as filled with unlimited potential and possibilities. Yet the tadpoles are connected to space, as space is connected to them, from material (the body of the tadpole) to immaterial (the electromagnetic field of the tadpole) and across timelines. Space is specific enough to carry planted seeds for futures, while those are not necessarily fixed. For it to become a frog in the future, space needs be strong enough to carry information and at the same time remember how a frog is created. What is a future vision is also a memory. Such operation of space could be seen as a form of a creative, spatial training. When training starts in the brain, and something new (or old) is learned, neurones craft new pathways. The brain changes. Being enters the space, and the space enters being.
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