image credit: Chi-Wei Cheng
On the final day of their residency for new work in development, reverse inheritance, Sky Su & Gunnar Bjercke will host a sharing of work created during their residency week.
This will show an excerpt of the work, followed by a gentle discussion on the themes and approach.
you were so young
when your fathers
cast a shadow
on the walls of your imagination,
it looks at you from darkness
(vastness caressed by light),
placing paintings in shadows and shadows in movement,
we are deconstructing its face,
exploring positive and negative space,
we invite souls to witness
vulnerability and sickness,
tell somebody:
this body is your inheritance.
reverse inheritance is a performance ritual about our fathers and fatherlands: who they were to us and the inheritance we received from them, both in burdens and in gifts. As a duo, Sky and Gunnar explore the amalgamation of Contact Improvisation and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with site-specific movement. Together they weave memories of their fathers into the present space, as they dance and struggle their way through grief and love.
The days of remembrance have passed the cold curiosity of our past. Using our own emotional experience as a canvas displaying a vulnerable void of grief. Celebrating the dead with rituals of wonder, exuberant acts of love. Improvised, masked and told. Text disguised in bold. Shadows, in corners of our minds….
Supported through our Paid Residency programme
