Knowing We Won’t Have Each Other Forever
Eve Stainton: DYKEGEIST
Sat 12 Nov, 20:00

This event has reached capacity. You can sign up to a waiting list at the door for spots that free up on the evening. Doors open at 19.30.

Dykegeist is a choreographic work from Manchester-born London-based artist and performance maker Eve Stainton – with a sound world conceived by musician Mica Levi. Dykegeist unravels and complicates the archetypal narratives assigned to the lesbian predator creature. During the current of the evening, aesthetics will shift between a supernatural gothic thriller, a 90’s sci-fi spider lair, a haunted Manchester club scene, an abstract and warping horror-scape, a social situation to discuss threat/the phobic/ consent/ otherness, choreography and suspended encounters, gateways gravel grunge, emptiness and charged-ness.

Dykegeist is presented as part of Bergen Kunsthall’s live programme strand Knowing We Won’t Have Each Other Forever which takes queer realities and ideas of the ephemeral as its departure point. Together, we will explore the possibilities of alternative world-making, thinking through movement and live practices. The experiential, more sensory character of this art form, and its ephemerality, open up new contemporary perspectives on intersectionality.

We will play around with temporalities, alter realities, producing new takes on the present as a means of coming together and finding ways of exercising freedom. A moving target, the ever-changing idea of queerness is hard to aim at. To move, to dance, to flounder is to shake off labels – challenging viewers’ expectations and pre-assumptions of the straight linear narratives – and reshaping the overall understanding of what is considered possible.

The series is curated by Nora-Swantje Almes.

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Free for Bergen Kunsthall members, contact medlem@kunsthall.no for the promo code