Photo © Valerie Reding
“Oxy Moron” is a play of multiple selves and their constant, seamless shape-shift between fiction and reality, magic and science, present and future. Using the modern day cyborg as a metaphorical narrative that unites both human appearance and machine-like behaviour, the work juggles with stereotypes and challenges different concepts of a perceived norm. Identities, corporealities and social status pass through a precarious transformation between self-empowerment, self-enhancement, self-optimization and self-deformation questioning the significance of the physical and the human in a digital age.
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CREDITS
Artistic direction, performance: Malika Fankha Makeup/Costume/Stage: Valerie Reding Makeup on tour: Yannick Zurcher Sound: Dark Euphoria feat. AC/BOY Technical Direction, Lights: David Baumgartner Technical Assistance: Andrej Barla Dramaturgy: Anna Mendelssohn & Denice Bourbon Dramaturgy on tour: Stefan Roehrle Outside Eye: Simone Aughterlony Movement Coach: Asher O’Gorman Production Management: mollusca Productions Dramaturgical Production Advice: Marc Streit Coproduction: FANKS Productions/Malika Fankha, Tanzhaus Zürich, Brut Wien imagetanz Festival
Residency partners: Workspacebrussels/Kaaitheater (BE), Campo Ghent (BE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), im_flieger Vienna (A), Huggy Bears (A), Counterpulse San Francisco (USA)
Oxy Moron is supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Pro Helvetia, Stadt Wien Kultur MA 7, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, Nestlé Fondation pour l’Art and the Swiss Embassy in Vienna
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