FOR WHAT REMAINS! / Miro Wallner
How many images can a body form with a plastic bag? What do they say about our present reality?
Plastic is a villain in the capitalist production chain. We see it for what it represents in the environmental destruction process – our invention. We talk about eliminating plastic bags, straws, and packaging, but plastic poses a major problem. It is infinite. This scale of complex issues restrains our actions.
How do we deal with infinitude? How do we transform the apathy and impotence at a social level? Perhaps in this piece, a plastic bag assumes a different role in the play.
A catalyst of images, evoking multiple emotions, and being constantly recycled. It is there to reveal a society that enters into spirals of destruction. To open the doors of our present vulnerability, for what remains.
Director Miro Wallner Dramaturgy Luisa Barreto Performance Gian Mellone, Caroline Alves, Lin Hektoen
Miro Wallner, born in 1985, is an established performing artist based in Berlin. With a rich history of collaborative projects, he has worked with renowned institutions such as Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, HAU (Hebbel am Ufer), Gropius Bau, Uferstudios and Halle Tanzbühne. His movement training draws from diverse sources, including Capoeira, Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, Floor Acrobatics, and the intensive practice of Get Physical Process — a movement practice created by Ricardo de Paula. Since 2018, Miro incorporated a visual arts perspective into his research process. He worked on a series of drawings to investigate aesthetics; used objects and different materials interacting with the body in an installation setting; and employed artificial intelligence to generate images with his distinctive style, testing the potential/limitations of current available technologies. Between 2021 and 2022, Miro has been supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste and Dachverband Tanz Deutschland to conduct three art-based research projects. This allowed him to bridge his past body experiences with Cognitive Science and Linguistics theory. With this multidisciplinary foundation, he is currently structuring his method of artistic investigation as a game — a tool for individuation and knowledge sharing, aiming to deepen our understanding of transformative experiences and socio-political change.