The foreign—the stranger—the grotesque unknown.

An anonymous space. An unusual body. A desultory corruption seeking reprieve. A pursuit of ones fantasies, fears, and neuroses. Without a need for resolution or justification, AVoid is the an astringent potentiality of the “in-between”: neither here nor there. The project is an attempt to touch on realities that belong to the indiscernible, the ineffable, those that are a reminder of the dissipation of certainties.

A complex tension between internal and external.

A singular style of movement capturing a body as a container of plenitudes.

Recollections—vivid yet anaesthetised—collide, merge, transform.

Infinite questions. Less and less convictions.

AVoid holds a venomous reminder of a senselessness and fragility upon which our present reality lies.

Conception & performance: Marina Cherry

Light Design: Thibault Condy

Sound Design: Noée Voisard, Marina Cherry

Artistic Support: Brandon Lagaert, Sara Angelucci, Pablo Molina, Carlo Massari

AVoid

Rendering unexpected connections between structure and madness, chaos and austerity, estrangement and dependence, AVoid is pondering the anthropological angle of our private realities. An individual shell. An enigma of multitudes inside.

This project is born from Marina’s fascination with solitude, contradictions, alienation and the impact of rapidly developing—devolving—society in the face of digitalisation. The common point being the concept hikikomori—the withdrawal into seclusion, a particular condition in Japanese society where people avoid social contact to an extreme level. Shutting oneself in.

A performance of interdisciplinary research between acro-dance, contortion, contemporary dance, and physical theatre.