Fluid Matters: Always coming hole + Leaking Letters

Departing from water and diving into liquidity and fluidity, this evening, co-curated by Elowise Vandenbroecke, attempts to open up perspectives on the slippery nature of fluid, as it pertains to water as well as the amniotic, liquid performances, watery thinking and the entangled and permeable nature of fluid bodies. Combining the presentation of Always coming hole, exploring the disappearing lakes in South America by choreographer Paula Almirón, with a leaky listening session of four commissioned letters written to “you” – each letter written by an artist, writer or theorist, exploring the scope of Fluid Matters.

Always coming hole by Paula Almirón

Two bodies on stage perform an audio guided choreography. They embody imaginary and real bodies of water being conducted, molded, and re-shaped. How and where do these aqueous bodies come together and differentiate?

Always coming hole is a choreographic reading space about Lake Poopó, a disappearing lake in Bolivia. It navigates a space created out of the negative of the lake: its body that it’s left behind, which has served as a vessel for its lifetime. Taking Lake Poopó as point of departure, the work investigates ways of listening to its movements and forces.

About Paula Almirón

Paula Almirón is a dancer and choreographer from Argentina based in Brussels since 2016. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of dance, choreography and ‘eco-fiction’, a literary genre that focuses on non-human stories and the performativity of the space. Within this research she relates to fiction as movement, and to choreography in an expanded way. Through her work, she investigates the potential of choreography as a listening device, to create alternative maps of spaces focusing on the dynamic relationships that already exist between the agents themselves: the potential of choreography to write Relationships.