Storytelling performance by artist Sébastien Hendrickx around the notions of ‘mother’, ‘language’ and ‘earth’.
In Moddertong, a kaleidoscopic narratives evokes the everyday life of a community in an unspecified time and place. The performance, in which a narrator sits with the audience in a circle, portrays how everything is magically connected: the sun, plants, animals, people and man-made things. Gradually, a tragicomedy unfolds in which countless creatures support and thwart each other.
The performance is the result of Sébastien Hendrickx’s ongoing research around notions of ‘mother’, ‘language’ and ‘earth’. Influenced by his continuous research and ever-changing circumstances, he keeps on making new versions of the same performance. Moddertong follows his debut performance The Good Life (2021).
PROGRAM
17:00-18:30 Performance Moddertong
ORGANIZATION
Moddertong is organized as part of the seminar series Science and Action, developed by researcher Jorrit Smit on the politics of planetary and climate knowledge production. The seminars take place as part of Planetary Poetics, a master’s programme hosted in collaboration with Framer Framed at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, that enables participants to develop artistic research while exploring key concepts of the ecological crisis. This includes questions of climate justice, land restitution and reparations, reproductive justice, and constellations of co-resistance.
The performance of Moddertong at Framer Framed is kindly supported by the Chair Casterman-Hamers: History and Philosophy of Sciences.
