floating skins peak into worship
About
performed at Riposte
(London, 2021)
performers: Byuka & Florent Venet
costume design: Florent Venet
The piece is a durational walk-about performance by Byuka Krow and Florent Venet. They respectively embody hybrid creatures called Sez’re & Ouda’re, interacting with the space through a butoh ritual framework.
Drawing from sci-fi storytelling as an embodied methodology, we wish to reach back into the awareness of multispecies kinship.
The intention of our ritual is to bring the audience into animist enchantment, which will also allow us to politically challenge notions of species, gender and intimacy.
Roaming strikingly slowly throughout the space, Sez’re & Ouda’re are crawling, shaking, spinning, stroking.
Using repetition and breathwork, we are creating surreal body sculptures. We are melting into mythological time.
We worship with our breath, we worship with our touch, we worship with our gaze caressing the audience and the space-nest we move through.
We open, we cleanse, we transform.
