THE AGENCY: N U R T U R Æ L and SOLASTALGIA
The performance group THE AGENCY immersively experiments with the manifestations and phenomena of late neoliberalism.
With the exhibition N U R T U R Æ L, THE AGENCY is curating a speculative scenario for a possible post-human world in the Lothringer 13 Halle, in which collaborative survival, interdependence and caring for one another are the prerequisites for a possible post-human way of being together.
For N U R T U R Æ L, THE AGENCY develops the performative installation SOLASTALGIA, in which the dryness of the desert forms the background for a farewell ceremony: between consolation (sōlācium) and -algia (pain, suffering, grief), solastalgia describes the feeling of losing one's living space due to global warming.
In SOLASTALGIA THE AGENCY creates a space of farewell to the centrality of the human species in an ecosystem that never belonged to us in the first place.
SOLASTALGIA:
By THE AGENCY
With: CHALLENGE GUMBODETE, KATE STRONG, LIINA MAGNEA
Sound design: NILE KOETTING
Dramaturgy: SARAH JOHANNA THEURER
Artistic production: SOFIE LUCKHARDT
Technical direction, collaboration set design: AMINA NOUNS
Assistance to the Artistic Direction: VERONIKA MÜLLER-HAUSZER
THE AGENCY shares their process of creating SOLASTALGIA
In cooperation with glasshouse, THE AGENCY publishes the website www.nurturael.site, which acts as a digital mood board during the development process. Here THE AGENCY collects their research, inspirations and lyrics and shares them with the audience to give an insight into the making of SOLASTALGIA.
Website: Lea Hopp
Rendering: Nevo Bar
With texts by Theresa Schlesinger
commissioned and produced by GLASSHOUSE and THE AGENCY
online now open: www.nurturael.site
THE AGENCY was founded in 2015 by Belle Santos, Yana Thönnes, Magdalena Emmerig and Rahel Spöhrer. Sofie Luckhardt has joined THE AGENCY in 2018.
Their work has been shown at a.o. Münchner Kammerspiele, Tanz im August, Pact Zollverein, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Radikal Jung, Festival Internacionales de Buenos Aires, the FFT Düsseldorf and the Athens Biennale.