PRESERVE - Call for attention
Preserve – Call for Attention, a research in collaboration with movement artist Susanna Yilkoski, composer Roi Becker, and dramaturge Maya Weinberg. It is supported by Residenzförderung 2025 des Fonds Darstellende Künste in cooperation with flausen+ and Schloss Bröllin.
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In an age of constant sensory overload, the research "PRESERVE - Call for attention" is rooted in the question: How does a body, both individual and collective, carry and embody processes of decay, erosion, collapse, transformation, and connection? And what form does our call take in response –is it a scream, a cry, or an act of quiet sensitivity?
We envision the research as divided into two main ideas: first, our focus on the decay of nature and the transforming mechanisms of the natural world, which could open pathways into myth, fantasy, and surrealism. In the second phase, our attention shifts toward the themes of human decay, allowing us to connect the physical body with broader cultural and societal\ political fractures.
That asks what happens when an overstimulated body falls into a state of numbness. Using movement, voice, and music \ sounds. The project explores how we perceive, process, and respond to internal and external catastrophes. Against the backdrop of urban intensity, the work poses fundamental questions: What constitutes an emergency? What deserves our attention?
The research explores extreme states of being, the tension between growth, decay, and the collective paralysis that surrounds us during the current global crisis. The research seeks moments of emotional transformation and examines the inner struggle with the overwhelming in a breathless, accelerated, and overstimulated society. From the peeping of our personal belongings of smartphones to smartwatches and microwaves to the public beeping of traffic lights and honks to the sirens of emergency vehicles: How do we, or what do we recognize as a signal of distress, a cry for help? What calls for our attention when the sensory input overrides and the body shuts down, closing off perception to block the flood of information.
We want to enter the delicate, unstable space where endings give rise to beginnings. It is a space charged with tension, echoing the breathless pulse of contemporary society in a slow rhythm, like watching a National Geographic documentary. PRESERVE – Call for Attention emerges as both inquiry and invitation: a call to sharpen our gaze, to deepen our sensibility, and to ask anew what is worth our shared attention at a time when both the human world and the natural world are under pressure. We want to suggest that through shared attention, we can transform our world.
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