The Humping Pact. Live performance by Dmitry Paranyushkin and Diego Agulló. Presented at Mousonturm theater in Frankfurt in May 2013.
In this performance, we were exploring the connection between the spectacle, space, technology, and the body. Most theater performances rely on stage design, lights, and sound, creating an atmosphere to carry the audience into an imaginary world. We investigate the processes of setting up a stage for a performance and preparing a space for a happening, revealing its meditative and ceremonial nature as well as a bond and sensuality that emerge in a collective work.
The process of setting up a space is akin to creating a new form of life. Bodies form into shapes, shapes create patterns, a language emerges. The inevitable end of this construction and its simulated nature make it futile from the very beginning, but it is this very futility that makes sense through the traces it leaves in space.
We use our bodies to relate these meanings, as they multiply and spread themselves against the backdrop of a theatrical stage, exposing the excessive desires and tensions that lie concealed both in human and architectural bodies. The result is an intimate, personal relationship with space that investigates human desire for conquest, stimulation, and procreation.
Link to the event: Mousonturm Theater, Frankfurt