Eat me Cosmos

Swallowing space and time, this durational performance swings dangerously close to its surround in simultaneously evoking theatrical perception and uneventful meditative drama. In it, object, sound and motion churn in and spit out a single performer’s sustained effort to maintain the center of everything all at once at Reaktor’s grand hall. Melanie Maar and Christian Schröder create a field of attention for performer and audience alike, conjuring a continuum between hard-earned individual agency and a pleasurable surrender to collectively being eaten alive.

‘Melanie Maar and Christian Schröder have been working together for over a decade. Though one of these artists generally works with sound and the other with bodily movement, neither subscribes to categorization, staying in one’s lane, or conventional roles and boundaries in the realms of music, performance and art.’