Experience the slowness of change through the story of Earth. The performance Anima, premiering at the 51st Theatre Biennale, reflects on our planet and the upheavals that affect it.
Four anime (‘souls’) united, though never overlaid, bring to life a new immersive installation/performance that is one of a kind. It makes invisible metamorpho- ses visible, and goes beyond the moral lecture on climate while revealing the future that absconds in the past. Born of a collaboration between director, author, and actress Maëlle Poésy and visual artist Noémie Goudal, staged by performer, acrobat, and circus artist Chloé Moglia with sound by Chloé Thévenin, Anima is an art experiment that took inspiration from palaeoclimatology.
The study of climate in ancient eras has been for years the focus of Goudal’s research and experimentation, who is created illusionistic installations within natural landscapes documented in video and photography. Fascinated by the extremely slow, yet crucial transformation of landscape all around the planet, the four artists question our special and temporal needs by putting the audience at the centre of a living triptych that shows the destruction and reconstruction of Nature. How does vertigo get to us when the horizon fades out, or the ground itself seem to disappear? How uneasy will we feel when we’ll be no longer able to tell day from night?
