Siri & Snelle: Collapsing Distance
With Collapsing Distance, Siri & Snelle revisit feminine aggression and forbidden feelings.
A vital element to this work is its nomadic development, allowing the project to be informed by different surroundings and conditions and actively collapsing the distance between art and work, aesthetics and life, age and experience, local and global. As individuals and collective, how can we stand up against society’s demands and expectations?
In exploring the feminist theme of Collapsing Distance, key concepts will include: the body, bestiality, pleasure, posing, distraction, sensuality and exhaustion. In other words, an aggregate of sensory experiences and perceptions.
About Siri & Snelle
For over 20 years, the Norwegian duo Siri & Snelle have explored their own lives and inadequacies, pursued anti-hierarchical forms and highlighted the intuitive, the emotional, and the sensual. Collaboration and cooperation with others have been central in their productions since the beginning, and improvisation a consistent basis of their creative methodology. Collectively, their body of work could be described as an insistence on fluent non-conformity.
Siri&Snelle have produced cutting edge work within a wide scope of formats, from happenings to full scale dance theatre productions – independent productions and commissioned works, such as for Carte Blanche|The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance.