Amid the fog of fallen pipes and broken monuments, enigmatic figures detail a space of opacity, erotics and fragile connections. Drawing from theories of ‘unworlding’ and the psychoanalytic anti-reparative stance, the work seeks to address the aesthetics of collapse and its potential to loosen the body from systems of gender and progress. This is not a site to disregard but an abundance of situations to be reckoned with.
The writing of the performance is partly driven by an uncanny numerological significance of the number 5: interweaving the connection between the 5 stages of grief, the 5 stages of decomposition and finally the 5 acts of a classical play.
"Collapse in 5 Acts: there is porn of it" confronts architectural and structural ruination against a backdrop of the capitalist drive for renewal. It actively invites the public to consider the wreckage of all that we have built and inherited as available remnants for a romance with the future, archive of the past and a sobering recognition for where we are now.