Mercury rising

SHOW WITH INTERNATIONAL SIGN

Mercury Rising emerges from a phenomenological excavation of language. Created in collaboration with and performed by Dawn Jani Birley, Rita Mazza and Lukas Malkowski, the performance charts both ancient and future no-linear languages, navigating the terrain between communication, gesture, agency, and physicality.

Mercury Rising positions the body as a volatile site of discourse - a place where meaning is made, unmade, and transformed through movement.

While inviting its audience to decipher an abundance of signs, the work also explores the slippery nature of interpretation and ultimately releases us from the need for the literal or the explanatory. Incorporating multiple sign languages, and created for all audiences - including Deaf and hearing audiences - Mercury Rising addresses the complexity of human communication on the brink of a paradigm shift. What we share, in the end, is not certainty - but the impossibility of full understanding, and the urge to connect nonetheless.

With : Rita Mazza, Dawn Jani Birley & Lukas Malkowski
Directing : Jefta van Dinther

Duration : 60 min

(Belgium)

(Germany)