Afterlife: Louis Schou-Hansen & Karoline Bakken Lund

26 Apr 2024 8-10pm

Overview

ICA presents Afterlife, a choreographic work by artist Louis Schou-Hansen.

Afterlife is a manic playground, a site for speculative futurities and derailed interpretations of a renaissance that never really happened. While diving into ghostly entities of Western dance history and questioning whether the Sun King ever died. The performance moves through a series of twisted dances from the late Italian Renaissance and early French Baroque, only to disperse into weird referential landscapes containing subtle traces of Britney’s banger dance from 'Hit Me Baby One More Time', Andrzej Zulawski’s subway scene from Possession and distorted yoga-gone-wrong inspired materials. Carried out by three performers, Afterlife tries to unfold muted narratives of subaltern bodies. Bodies that, through Western colonial and anti-queer epistemic regimes, were deemed disposable or unfit to partake in any further historical development.

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