Inspired by science fiction novels and their speculative thinking, the project focuses on an expanded network of relationships. Bodies encounter other species, technologies, materials and environments in resonance and transform themselves into an erotic ecology. How can we experience an ecosomatic vitality in which pleasure is inextricably interwoven with the conditions of our living environments? What political power arises from this sensitivity?

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As part of the 4-exchange residency in Stuttgart, the research team is beginning to develop initial scenic sketches. Performance artist and director Katharina Simons, working under the label CUTTY SHELLS, is collaborating with performers Elina Brams Ritzau and Julian Sturz on performative experiments that explore the boundaries between tender intimacy, unfamiliar choreography, and playful openness. A place where desire and research can meet. A place that rethinks intimacy.