When Mouth Meets Nose – Vocabulary of Empathy

Performance Festival ORANGERIE, Berlin

2022

In the performance When Mouth Meets Nose, the body is seen as a „membrane“ that is in constant communication. Humans and other species, plants, cells, and organs are in exchange with each other. The movements are understood as an interaction that shapes and surrenders to space, so this work also deals with transformational states of body and space, material and touch, and contact and resonance, like previous works by Stella Geppert. This performance, which involves the audience, refers to an imprint of the tip of the nose and the mouth, which, when superimposed, depict the spine in a poetic way.