Materize
  technology merging with the body



Sól Ey [composition, instrument design, concept, performer]
Alvilda Faber Striim [choreographer, performer]
Abraham Rademacher [performer]
Paulina Šmatláková [performer]
Daphne Karstens [costume design]
Nathan Marcus [light design and programming assistant]
Marina Mascarell [mentor]

Photo by Alexis Rodríguez Cancino.

Presented in collaboration with Bad Circuit & RASK with support from Augustinus Fonden, Koda Kultur, Statens Kunstfond, Landsbankinn, Tónskáldasjóður RÚV & STEF, Tónskáldasjóður Bylgjan & Stöð 2 and William Demant Fonden. Developed during residencies at Academy for Theater and Digitality, Inter Arts Center, Dansk Danseteater and Sound Art Lab.

︎︎︎ Dansekapellet, Kuppelsalen [Bispebjerg Torv 1]
︎︎︎ 30.11.2024 17.00
︎︎︎ 30.11.2024 20.00
︎︎︎ BUY FESTIVAL TICKET HERE

MINU 2024 has two kinds of tickets available.

150 kr - festival ticket that gives access to all events at the festival 

200 kr - festival ticket + 1, that gives access to all events at the festival and allows you to bring a friend along [it can be different people for different events]

The interdisciplinary performance Materize interweaves sound, movement and space. The performers play the wearable electronic instrument Hreyfð, which makes sound with gestures using feedback and sensors. Thus, the performers are simultaneously dancers, musicians and a sound system.

The instrument Hreyfð symbolises the transition of technology merging with the human body — a progression humanity rapidly approaches. The development of intelligent technology is primarily focused on technicality, while its effects on compassion, care and interpersonal connections tend to be forgotten. What happens when technology becomes human? Can technology have an intimate emotional relationship with a human? The title Materize refers to the word “matter” and the formation of the intangible, as well as the Latin word “mater”, meaning mother. But who is the mother of technology, and who will care for her? And what happens when compassion is forgotten in technological development?