Interdisciplinary performance that combines contemporary circus, technology, video art, rap, text, and sound design to create a multisensory experience. A dialogue between the analogue and the digital body. Hedonia embarks on a critical examination of our technologically-mediated reality and its profound impact on our lives. Eight by two meters of artificial grass. In the background, the landscape extends further on a large screen. Two people lie on the grass: it’s a perfect day—yoga in nature and the scent of the forest. A dystopia, a disconnection, solitude and pleasure to the sound of rap at a picnic. In the tension between artificial nature, genuine emotions and pixelated tears, the performers navigate between authenticity and imitation.
Clara Cortés: graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (UB) in 2013, and in Contemporary Circus in 2018 from the Academy for Circus and Performance Art at Fontys University in Tilburg (Netherlands). With her background in visual arts, she brings innovative impulses to her work in the field of contemporary circus. She has a strong interest in new formats, the use of new technologies, and hybrid stage practices. Her artistic practice is interdisciplinary in nature, and she often collaborates with artists from other disciplines as well as with research and creative fields. Co-founder of circus and dance company Efecto R and a member of European project Hand to hand (www.handtohand.eu), an exploration of contemporary circus and of public spaces from which to tackle environmental and social environment issues.
Moritz Grenz: graduated from ACaPA (Fontys Academy of Circus and Performance Art de Tilburg, (NL)), specialising in wire. His artistic career fuses circus and rap music with sound engineering, creating a creative narrative that touches on the most relevant social issues. He is co-director of the company Klub Girko together with Josef Stiller, from where they explore new forms of dialogue between artistic disciplines. At the same time he collaborates with Siebler+Siebler on their project Deconstruct/ Research, developing innovative apparatus that reinterpret and deconstruct the wire technique. As a member of Trottvoir, he experiments with theatre, music and performance as ways to dynamise public space, while his commitment to the CINS group helps to make visible the history of circus during the Nazi period in Germany.
