smoking and the rest

During this performance residency, Mattie and Sophie will spend two months in the psycho-social center St. Alexius, paying attention to things that are barely perceptible or have been overlooked. Together they want to look further into their practice concerning disappearance and the double meaning of dwelling as a place of rest as well as pondering.

By gathering charged materials like cigarette ashes, conversations with residents and nurses, and the small but significant movements that occur in the centre, they will create sculptures and performances that are blur and yet transformative.

They would also like to better understand how knowledge systems such as medicine and physiology codify experiences of a ‘self’ — how are bodies diagnosed with particular conditions in relation to ‘normality’, and how these diagnoses grant or take away agency.