This performance is the result of the collaboration between Karl Götter and Bea Bayón. The project stands on the meeting point between the installation/sculptures/set design by Karl Götter and the movement/performance directed by Bea Bayón.

It reflects on consent between humans, stretching it to objects and spaces. Playing with verbal and physical communication about consent, building but also breaking connections. By playing we try to find the other to experience ourselves, but also communicate our bound- aries through giving and receiving and creating feedback loops of communication.
Two of the principles of our erformances are our need to have the other in order to experi- ence ourselves and the tensions that this can create.
We see relationships as a constant transformation and renegotiation of limits and rules. Once those limits and rules of the relationship are established together, it might just last for a moment, until it breaks and we reshape it again: as we are in constant transformation.

This performance is composed in an installation/set design out of several metal sculptures. These sculptures are the initial trigger for the concept. They resemble abstract body shapes that invite people to physically interact with, humanise and project desires onto them.

This translates into our performers in an active conversation about desires and boundaries. This dialogue is a perpetual threat throughout the performance, either in literal conversation or nonverbal communication (movement and dance). We challenge the limits of the relation- ship created between the performer, their bodies and the space, creating moments of tension by confrontation or struggles. Throughout the piece “the object” that is mir- rored changes between the performers, extended to the visitors (breaking 4th wall), to the sculptures, but also to the sounds. We use different ways of mirroring like direct mirroring, relative mirroring, abstract mirroring, amplified mirroring and other combined with verbal mirroring and echoing as a language and a way of communicating and being between the performance.

The set design has one essential sculpture; an electrical in- strument that generates a feedback loop through vibration that can be manipulated or caltered by contact and/or the buttons that control volume and frequency.

Physical vibration is translated into sound waver. This princi- ple idea is extended through the other sculptures that become instruments.
They are inter connected through further contact mi- crophones that are amplified and reproduce the sound through speakers in other sculptures. It creates an entangled soundscape that can be physically manipulated through touch and changing in and outputs.


First version performed by Esteban Obregón Moriano and Bea Bayón (June 2023 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie)
Second version performed by Marilou and Wiktoria Kolcon (08-Oct-23 at Ellipsis Gallery Amsterdam)

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