Wormhole Stories #2–3: To Mean Time, Flash/Dim
performance
Winter Shorts, Bears in the Park, Vienna | 2022
imagetanz, Handle with Care feat. Huggy Bears, Vienna | 2022
documentation
In a straightforward sense, a wormhole is a hole in wood or fruit, burrowed by insect larvae. It can also be a figurative hole, such as a productive digression that is both a detour and a destination-in-becoming. It can denote a process, for instance, of navigating digital space, of moving endlessly from one internet page to another by way of hyperlinks. The laborious slowness, underlying the above description, clashes with the speed that characterizes wormholes in literary, film, and TV sci-fi narratives.
This description became a starting point to the research process, whose elements turned into short performative situations, such as “To Mean Time” and “Flash/Dim,” the second and third public rehearsal of the ongoing performative series “Wormhole Studies,” which eventually led to the multimedia performance “Wormhole Stories” (wuk performing arts, Vienna, October 2022).