Throat Pleats: Elasticene
Huset-KBH
12th June 19.30
Programme
Throat Pleats: Elasticene
Elasticene is a performance work by duo Throat Pleats. Combining experimental music, sound installation, movement, and speculative fiction, Throat Pleats embark on a material exploration of latex, plastic, and rubber as lively agents in imagined lives. As the philosopher Jane Bennett has argued, twenty-first-century humans have a “habit of parsing the world into dull matter (things) and vibrant life (beings)”. In Elasticene, however, the man-made materials of the Anthropocene have fled their makers to form new weird ecologies and imagined futures where materials and beings biologically entangle.
In Elasticene, Throat Pleats dismantles the boundaries between instrument and performer. Amidst environmental collapse, the work positions synthetic materials as both collaborators and antagonists in a choreographed negotiation of breath, resistance, and play. The balloon – a delicate expanding petrochemical membrane containing human breath – becomes a metaphor for the body’s entanglement with industrial ecologies and a collective rising anxiety about impending climate disaster. Throat Pleats musically repurposes detritus of the Anthropocene to find joy, strangeness, and beauty amidst a world choked by our material creations, presenting a posthuman, anti-virtuosic reimagining of what a contemporary musical performance might look like in the twenty-first century.
Venue
Huset-KBH
Rådhusstræde 13 1466 København K
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Throat Pleats
Throat Pleats is an experimental musical project by percussionist Niki Johnson and composer-clarinettist Solomon Frank. Since 2017, they have worked with sound as a visceral, theatrical, and material experience across contemporary classical music, performance art, and queer nightlife spaces.
