DISTORTED BODY
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Depression arrives quietly. It changes the body, unsettles the senses, and eventually distorts the shape of the world. “Distorted Body” traces the sensory landscape altered by the cognitive distortions of depression through movement, surround sound, and light. This work does not seek to explain or sensationalize depression. Instead, it invites us to contemplate an inner landscape that many of us have passed through or may still be navigating. Tracing the broken and distorted senses shaped by the society we live in, it quietly asks you.
Are you Okay?
Direction & Choreography: Howool Baek
Composition & Sound Design: Matthias Erian
Choreographic Collaboration & Interpretation: Nicole Michalla, Lorenzo Savino
Light Design: Nicolas San Martín Mohr
Research Partner: Okju Son
Research Contributor: Nabida
Research Producer: Jinyoung Shin
Special Thanks to all interview participants who shared their stories and
perspectives during the research process.
Co-production with Acker Stadt Palast
Research supported by Arts Council Korea, Bobora Residency Center Aarhus Denmark,
Fonds Darstellende Künste - NEUSTART KULTUR #TakeCare
Content Notes & Trigger
Stroboscopic lights, fog, Laure's music, violence (against others / oneself), death/coping with grief, depression, loss, anxiety, mental health issues.
Choreographer Howool Baek has established her own choreographic language by discovering faceless body expression through body fragments. And she proposes a different perspective on the body through the deconstruction and transformation of the body. By breaking stereotypes about the body, she wants the audience to have
a new experience with the body and to look at society from a diff erent perspective. Recently, she expanded the concept of the stage to the digital space and is experimenting with her own choreography method on the digital stage.
Matthias Erian is an electro-acoustic composer, Sound Designer and he has broadened the boundaries of his artistic activity to the Video-Art and Light-Design. He works with digitalized sound textures extracted from the original natural and urban sound source, and searches in the fi eld of electronic music for unique colors and characters of the contemporary soundscape. The sound space as a resonating body is at the center of his works and becomes experiential through those works. Distraction and recovery are the methods of his artistic Gestus.