Biofiction

xx FOCUS SIMONE AUGHTERLONY

Switzerland/Germany/USA / 2015 / 75'
Performance

Biofiction is a rare love story between many, an
unexpected clearing on a wilderness that offers a
close-up on human and non-human assemblages and
their affects. Situated within an inquiry into vibrant
matter, a choreographic poem emerges that is both
careful and utterly libidinal.

Gathering the remains of the previous two
works in The Biofiction Trilogy – the hot pink flesh
placeholder, wood and crafting tools, the rope that
weaves, the natural and artificial entanglement
of fluids and materials – Biofiction creates a new
horizontal terrain that renders a plurality of agencies
without ontological hierarchy. What may ordinarily
be considered inadequate stimuli is now attended to
for all its sensual and specific qualities, cultivating
an irrational love of matter. The intimate rapport,
the dance that spectrums acts of labour, pleasure,
cohabitation and simply ‘being with’ refuses the
normative divisions between nature and culture, male
and female or any such binary.

A practice of reorienting and redistributing the
senses generates a queer consciousness and affirms
a landscape that is both present and utopian. We
see stereotypes and prototypes, we recognize then
delight in misrecognition, we may even laugh despite
ourselves. Understanding Biofiction in terms of a
narrative of sexuality that does not yet exist sustains
curiosity - defying conventions or identification
renders this choreographic work as a continuous
world-building practice.

Is this movement research, music or fun post-porn
practice? Beyond the associations, it brings the bodies
and companion materials in conversation to know no
difference between being excited, being exciting and
being excited-with.

Performance: Simone Aughterlony, Jen Rosenblit, Hahn Rowe 
Concept: Simone Aughterlony 
Live Music: Hahn Rowe 
Dramaturgical Advice:
Saša Božić, Jorge León 
Costume: Judith Steinmann 
Light Design: Florian Bach 
Technical Director: Ursula Degen 
Production Management: Sina Kießling 
Production: Simone Aughterlony
Coproduction: Gessnerallee Zurich,
HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
Frankfurt, Theater Freiburg

In English.

Tickets: € 7 / € 5

Organisation: City of Women in collaboration with Bunker / Old Power Station - Elektro Ljubljana.