“Where do we go when we cannot rely on the products of the authorities that raised us? Do we turn to older wisdom and/or seek to create something new?” These questions are the drive of Soul hole, a new performance piece by Moa Holgersson and Isadora Tomasi. On the basis of their firm, but also subtle, theoretical and political stands on the topics of patriarchy, sexuality, ecology, and repression, these two artists produce a unique and hybrid artistic practice which we may observe in Soul hole, a research on the surface and in the cavities of each other’s bodies. This instrumentalization of a body should not be understood plainly, but in all its emancipatory force: as both embodiment and expression of intimacy: “Female narratives can be hi-jacked and repackaged for more profitable motives. We want to investigate what happens when female to female care and intimacy are their own means to an end. Care as a physical/emotional nourishment. Care as tuning in to each other ... Care as worrying about caring too much or not enough. And caring for each other.”

# where to, authority, wisdom, something new, patriarchy, ecology, repression, hybrid, body, instrument, intimacy, care 

concept, performance, music: Moa Holgersson, Isadora Tomasi

acknowledgments: Dansmakers - Suzy Block, Ruth Verraes; Nell Schwan, Laura Colomban, Elisa Zuppini, Fernando Belfiore, Tiana Hemlock-Yensen, Francesca Lazzeri, Carlotta Ippolito, Nadja Voorham 

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