PERFORMANCE - SOUND SCULPTURE - 2026
UN/BROKEN
Performance & Sound Sculpture
Saturday, 17 January, 2026 - Studio K77, Berlin
UN/BROKEN is a performance work-in-progress that meditates on fragility, decomposition, and transformation as embodied, sonic, and material processes. Born in the depth of winter, the piece unfolds like a slowly thawing landscape: cracked, shimmering, and alive with subtle shifts. Rather than presenting a fixed choreography, the work generates a shared atmospheric field in which movement, sound, breath, and matter continuously erode, fracture, and reassemble in real time. Collapse is not treated as failure, but as a fertile threshold — a site where new forms of relation and perception can emerge.
Contact Improvisation dancers Rosalind Holgate-Smith and Maria Cantero move through this unstable terrain with acute sensitivity, allowing their bodies to become instruments of listening. Their movements are neither fully separate nor fully unified, but interwoven through shared rhythms of tension, release, and dissolution. They hover between weight and weightlessness, between holding and letting go, tracing the invisible forces that bind bodies to one another and to their environment.
Live sound by Kėkė Søl envelops the space in a textured, atmospheric score that breathes with the dancers. Music and movement remain porous and responsive, slipping in and out of one another so that neither leads nor follows. Together they linger at the fragile edge between collapse and continuity, creating a liminal space where time feels suspended and transformation becomes palpable.
At the heart of the performance is Bone Milk, a ritualistic sound sculpture that functions as both object and presence. The piece consists of a plexiglass sphere encased in leather, filled with an assemblage of materials — seashells, sand, rice, salt, quartz and alpine stones, dried flowers and grasses, a crinkled note, a clay face painted gold, and other remnants whose origins hover between personal, natural, and mythic. As the dancers engage with Bone Milk, it becomes a vessel of memory and decay, resonating softly with movement and sound.
Bone Milk emerges from the artist’s ongoing Reliquaries series — sculptural experiments that explore grief, care, and the strange aliveness of decomposition. In UN/BROKEN, the sculpture is not merely a prop but a companion: a trembling archive of what persists after breaking, and what continues to speak through decay.
The performance invites the audience into a collective act of witnessing — a space where bodies, materials, and sound are all in states of becoming, undoing, and re-forming, reminding us that to break is also to open toward transformation.
