14–16/5
DUST: MIMOSA (experiment #2) & Do We Dream Under the Same Sky?

DUST creates performances and installations through broad collaborations across various media, including choreography, theater, and performance installations. Experience two performances during three days at Inkonst!

14/5 19:00 MIMOSA (experiment #2) (40 min)
15/5 19:00 Do We Dream Under the Same Sky? (180 min)
16/5 19:00 Do We Dream Under the Same Sky? (180 min)

Doors open 30 min before each performance. Do We Dream Under the Same Sky? The audience can leave and reenter during the performance.

Several ticket options! Get one ticket for all three days or pick and choose as you like

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MIMOSA (experiment #2) is a performance that explores nature as a disobedient ground that refuses to stay quiet and passive

MIMOSA (experiment #2) explores the complex relationship between nature, race and gender, in the companionship o the Mimosa pudica plant.

Mimosas known for its rapid and unique reactions to touch was also a faniscination of many botanists such Linnaues and Darwin who created tropica conditions for the exotic plant to survive in a foreing ground. After being touched repeatly the plant began to “play dead” and ceased its movements.

In the performance, choreographer Flavia Pinheiro reflects on how nature is often seen as a soft, domesticated ground and a feminine space, Mimosas as womans were drawing parallels to figures such as Darwin and Carl Linnaeus, who once described the mimosa as fragile and shy, Pinheiro asks the question: How do we react when we are touched? Do we have to play dead to survive? What happens when we see nature as an untamed place?

Credits:

Choreography, performance: Flavia Pinheiro
Collaboration and Production: Tom Oliver Jacobson
Costumes: Mark d’Andrade
Music composition: Henrique Vaz
Video: Henrique Vaz, Leandro Olivan

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Do We Dream Under the Same Sky? explores isolation and dreams with inspiration from the pandemic and a “post-truth-era”. A magical portal between the past and an alternative dreamworld in the shape of a clinic

In Do We Dream Under the Same Sky? we meet characters navigating through a fragmented reality, where the line between dream and waking is blurred.

The performance takes place in a clinic-like setting – a place of both physical and mental healing, but also a reflection of a fragmented world. The characters are caught in a loop of repetitive rituals and memories, constantly rebuilding their surroundings in a search for meaning. Inspired by the aftermath of the pandemic and a post-truth era, the performance opens a portal to a dreamworld. Through evocative images and constant self-transformations, the audience becomes part of this meditative and cathartic process.

With a soundscape woven of political speeches, echoing empty streets, and reports from the pandemic, the real mixes with the fictional. “Do We Dream Under the Same Sky” is an invitation to explore the depths of the human psyche and search for collective dreams in a fragmented reality.

Credits: 

Concept: Tom Oliver Jacobson & Flavia Pinhiero
Performers: Tom Oliver Jacobson, Flavia Pinheiro, Selma Kjellson, Adrian Kautsky
Composition: Henrique Vaz
Video: Tom Oliver Jacobson, Leandro Olivan
Artistic advice: Rodrigo Batista

With support from Malmö Stad & Region Skåne

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DUST

DUST was founded in 2020 as a temporary institute that creates performances and installations through broad collaborations across various media, including choreography, theater, and performance installations.

Tom Oliver Jacobson is a performer, theatre maker and curator with a focus on immersive, durational works that offer glimpses into worlds beyond the binary of utopia and dystopia. Co-founder of the art institute DUST (2020-present), co-founder of Tlön, a Malmö-based performance collective.

Flavia Pinheiro is an award-winning choreographer and researcher based in Amsterdam. Her work explores art as a form of resistance against existing systems of knowledge. In her works, she creates exchanges with nonhumans such as bacterias, plants, birds, antelopes and ghosts.