Eröffnung / Simone Aughterlony

HAND JOB places revolving apparatuses, blue porcelain, text and body into a fragile interplay of grasping, turning, slipping and repetition. Choreographer and performance artist Simone Aughterlony is interested in the moment when something no longer “works” – and turns loss of control into method. Two rotating platforms display matter transformed through physical touch and the labour of hands: here, objects of use or usefulness emerge; there, matter resists recognisable form – through a surplus of touch, everything remains in transition. A voice-over speaks of the process of coming undone: trembling hands, forming cracks, and holes that can hardly be filled anymore. Erosion becomes erotic. Loosening grip and embracing the unknown, HAND JOB opens the LIMINALITIES Festival.