The Reversed Alchemist: Figure 4-6

Pictures: Dieter Hartwig

The Reversed Alchemist: Figure 4-6  IS A CHOREOGRAPHIC RITUAL IN THREE PARTS, AN INVITATION TO AN ALCHEMICAL PROCESS THAT SEEKS TO TRANSFORM PERCEPTION INSTEAD OF MATTER. STARTING FROM THE PHENOMENON OF "INFORMATION OVERLOAD", IXCHEL MENDOZA HERNÁNDEZ TAKES THE AUDIENCE ON A CHOREOGRAPHIC JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE, FOCUSING HER ATTENTION IN PARTICULAR ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SENSORY AND COGNITIVE EXPERIENCE. "THE REVERSED ALCHEMIST: FIGURE 1-3" ESTABLISHES A POETIC LINK BETWEEN INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTION, REFLECTING ON HOW OUR PERCEPTION HAS CHANGED OVER TIME AND WHAT CONSEQUENCES THIS HAS FOR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR BODY AND OUR MIND. AT THE SAME TIME The Reversed Alchemist: Figure 4-6  IS IN SEARCH FOR AN EMANCIPATORY POSITION AGAINST A REALITY DIVIDED INTO HEGEMONIC CATEGORIES. IN THIS FUTURISTIC RITUAL IXCHEL MENDOZA HERNÁNDEZ AIMS AT REVERSING THE FRAGMENTATION OF PERCEPTION THROUGH AN EMBODIED HEALING PROCESS FOR THE PRESENT.

Choreography, performance, text: Ixchel Mendoza Hernández  | Dramaturgy: Matthias Mohr  | Sound installation/composition: Martin Lutz and Kyan Bayani | Light design/installation: Catalina Fernandez  | Video concept & editing: Anna Katharina Weißenfels and Ixchel Mendoza Hernández  | Recorded video section: Christiane Schniebel | Outside eye: Christina Themeli | Costume design: Malena Modéer | PR: Johannes Fellmann /Jana Lüthje | Production: M.i.C.A. - Movement in Contemporary Art  | Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe | 

​Premiere: August 2021 Berlin, Germany​

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Pictures: Dieter Hartwig