Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka

Independent Artist, Austria

How can we re-access a knowledge of human rootedness in nature that has been part of the wisdom of many cultures for centuries? While animals may to us seem more closely related to human life than other forms of nature because we can interact with them in a direct bodily way, also plants do have means to sense and communicate with their environment and react to human stimuli.

Bodily Weavings is an experimental soundperformance created as a performative soundwalk across the Botanical Garden of Graz, Austria. Shapes, structures, classifications and sensations of the plants and their environment form the basic material from which the performance develops across several scenes that happen in different habitats of the garden. The three performers use sounds, movements and posture to integrate themselves into and communicate with the botanical ecosystem, while also adding a playful lightness. Human and natural sounds & movements mingle and interact with real and imaginary sceneries.

Performers: Flora Könemann, Yvonne Hofmeister, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka

A collectively developed choreography; dramaturgy and concept by M. Maierhofer-Lischka

Bodily Weavings was supported by the City of Graz, the Government of Styria and an artist scholarship of the Austrian Bundeskanzleramt.