HOW TO BREATHE IN TIMES OF CRISIS. Teach us a song for recovery, dear Alga!
HOW TO BREATHE IN TIMES OF CRISIS. Teach us a song for recovery, dear Alga!
Malin Harff
Malin Harff has had to severely restrict her artistic activities over the past two years due to her Long Covid illness. As part of her funding, she aims to establish a working method with her company that reconciles her disability with her professionalism. With the piece ‘HOW TO BREATHE IN TIMES OF CRISIS’, she wants to draw parallels between her physical exhaustion and the exhaustion of the planet. Climate crisis, mineral extraction and Long Covid – not only do similar conditions lead to their emergence, but they are also reinforce one another. Long Covid is a multi-systemic disease that the choreographer relates to our collapsing ecosystem in its total systemic collapse. “HOW TO BREATHE IN TIMES OF CRISIS” examines the state and breathing of the world – with the help of the physicality of Long Covid, the soprano Alge, mixed-abled performers and the finite and most sought-after raw material in the world, sand.
Jury statement
Malin Harff’s project is a radical invitation to rethink our idea of exhaustion and healing. Inspired by the respiration of algae – one of the oldest and most resilient species on earth – the mixed-abled artist group around Malin Harff develops a poetic choreography of resting. The connection between Long Covid as a multisystemic disease and planetary exhaustion is not only addressed here, but made artistically tangible. By exploring alternative temporalities, the project designs new forms of physical and creative self-care. “HOW TO BREATHE IN TIMES OF CRISIS” is not only an artistic research project, but also a plea for a more sustainable, sensitized way of being and working.
