Unending Love, or Love Dies, On Repeat Like It's Endless
Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless is a choreography by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins that reflects on the relations of desire, dance, fragmentation, love (as communality) and time. The work develops and unfolds through its different iterations.
Through gesture, sensuality, touch and relationality, Baczyński-Jenkins’ practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Relationality is present in the dialogical ways in which the work is developed and performed as well as in the materials and poetics it invokes. This includes tracing relations between sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, the textures of everyday experience, the utopian and latent queer histories. He approaches choreography as a way of reflecting on the matter of feeling, perception and collective emergence, while indulging in other ways of experiencing memory, time and change.
Through gesture, sensuality, touch and relationality, Baczyński-Jenkins’ practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Relationality is present in the dialogical ways in which the work is developed and performed as well as in the materials and poetics it invokes. This includes tracing relations between sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, the textures of everyday experience, the utopian and latent queer histories. He approaches choreography as a way of reflecting on the matter of feeling, perception and collective emergence, while indulging in other ways of experiencing memory, time and change.
CREDITS
Choreography
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
In collaboration with and performed in various constellations by
Aaa Biczysko
Arad Inbar
Beverly D. Renekouzou
Thomias Radin
Sound design and artistic advisor
Krzysztof Bagiński
Sound contributions
Zoi Michailova
Lighting design
Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Dramaturgy
Andrea Rodrigo
Poem
Ezra Green
With thanks to
Dareen Abbas
Thibault Lac
Curator and Tour Manager
Andrea Rodrigo
Executive Producer
Holly Shuttleworth
A production by
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins Studio
Studio director
Andrea Rodrigo
Studio manager
Sarie Nijboer
Management Consultant
Rui Silveira
Distribution
Something Great
Co-producers
De Singel - International Arts Centre
Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival
Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Ludwig Forum for International Art
Kölnischer Kunstverein
Klosterruine Berlin
Disappearing Berlin - Schinkel Pavillon
Developed with the generous support of a residency at Callie’s
Supported by
Nationales Performance Netz (NPN) - Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Duration
2 hours
ITERATIONS
Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless was previously presented at:
Klosterruine, Berlin, Germany (2021); reboot: responsiveness, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, and Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (2022); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2022); Duelo colectivo, duelo planetario at Museo Reina Sofía with Festival de Otoño, Madrid (2022); Amarre Festival at MDT, Stockholm (2022).For information about other dates, please click here.
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless, 2022. Photo 1: Performance (two performers version) at ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2022, Kuopio, Finland. Courtesy: the artist. © Akseli Muraja / Photo 2+3+4: Performance (three performers version) at KIASMA, Helsinki, 2022. Courtesy: Finnish National Gallery © Pirje Mykkänen / Photo 5: Performance (four performers version) at DeSingel, Antwerp, 2022. Courtesy: the artist.© Heavens Okwuego / Photo 6+7+8: Performance (solo version - Thomas Radin) at Copenhagen. Red Light Green Light (In the Realm of the Senses) Kunsthal Charlottenborg © Jan Søndergaard. / Photo 9+10+11: Performance (two performers version) at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, 2022. Courtesy Lafayette Anticipations. © Chloé Magdelaine