SPEAKING VOLUMES asks how we can comprehend the geological processes that solidified shellfish, piled up the Alps or shifted tectonic plates over the course of millions of years. Short-lived air pockets, crystalline structures and viscous surfaces form a dynamic landscape of different temporalities and agencies on stage. Inseparably immersed in this entanglement the performers act from a place of listening and continuously sink deeper into the layerings. Following the invitation of the materials, the piece experiments with poetic tales of Earth time and lets the non-human have its say.

[Mineral] intimacy runs slow and deep.
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen – Stone. An Ecology of the Inhuman

MIRJAM SÖGNER works as a choreographer and performer between Berlin and Vienna. She studied dance, choreography and artistic research at MUK Vienna and ArtEZ Arnhem. Her pieces tour through Europe, Canada and Australia to theatres such as Dancehouse Melbourne, Dansens Hus Oslo, brut Wien, Circuit-Est Montreal, Frascati Amsterdam or Rote Fabrik Zürich. Her first solo work Lara was chosen to be part of the Aerowaves Performance-Network in 2016. She has created pieces for Tanztage Berlin, Goethe Institute, Dschungel Wien a.o. and frequently teaches at ArtEZ Art Academy Arnhem.

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