On an attempt of a chicken soup
choreography. dance. music. video. visual design. text. Dan Su
3D animation. Sebastian Schöllhammer
photo. Aïsha Mia
camera. Noam Gorbat
light. technical support. Ansgar Tappert
adastudio support. Gabi Beier
solo performance. Premiered at adastudio, Uferstudio Berlin, August 2019
On a Sunday morning, the thought experiment of attempting a chicken soup evoked my reflection on the process of making itself. Aiming at a chicken soup, I am afraid of getting deeply stuck in the egg. Can one aim something yet produce nothing, or intend nothing but produce anything? What dances between the desire and fear, between the fight and hurt, and between the construction and destruction? If it is not the chicken soup itself that matters, then perhaps it’s our varied projection of that image, floating on the water of the lucid moments that drive one in and out of dreams. At the end, what lives on? No end
