Astrid Sweeney, Weixin Chong
ontogenesis dreams

A being in its seemingly natural habitat embarks on an existential metamorphosis. Disoriented and disassembled, it finds itself falling, sensing, mimicking the movements of plants, machines or insects; a post- or trans-human organism trying to piece together its existence in an ambiguous body.

ontogenesis dreams: a sideways stretching of the sensory limbs is a collaborative hybrid of performance and installative environment choreographed and performed by Astrid Tetsche Sweeney with sculpture & scenography by Weixin Quek Chong.

Inspired by the molting processes of insects, queer ecologies and the radical vision of post-apocalyptic adaptation in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, they explore the body’s impermanence through its relationship with an ambiguous organic material.

Artist

Astrid Sweeney, Weixin Chong

Title

ontogenesis dreams

Type

Performance

Date

26.–28.5.2025

Venue

Dansehallerne, Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen V

Credits

Created and directed by Astrid Tetsche Sweeney and Weixin Quek Chong. Choreography & performance: Astrid Tetsche Sweeney. Scenography & sculpture: Weixin Quek Chong. Sound design: Moss Kissing. Lighting design: Ryoya Fudetani. Dramaturgy consultation: Yasen Vasilev. Custom latex wear: Studio FCLX. Video by Dror Shohet. Working process videography & photography: Julio Galeote Carrascosa, Jonas Vandekerckhove. Outside eye: Jonas Vandekerckhove, Francesco Ferrari, Shubigi Rao. Produced by Sheelin Projects. Co-producers: Dansehallerne, deSingel, Nordic Residency Exchange Program. Residencies: Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, deSingel, Holstebro Dansekompagni, KAAP, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen Kunsthall. With the support of: Statens Kunstfond, National Arts Council Singapore, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, William Demant Fonden, Culture Moves Europe (Goethe Institut).

Statens Kunstfond (en)
Wilhelm Hansen Fonden (en)
William Demant Fonden
Goethe Institut (en)
National arts council Singapore

With special thanks to Eastman, Karthika Naïr and Dorte Grannov Balslev