‹Co-Weaving› is a corporeal and poetic landscape of practices contemplating present, individual and collective, realities, fantasies, dreams and utopias of reproductive labor and care. It weaves images emanating from each individual into shared fabrics in order to experiment with and create visions for our desirable futures together. Introducing the practice’s different procedures, participants in the workshop will experience several choreographic methods and games: meditation, imitating, and transforming words and movements to branch out from individual images.

It’s crucial to reimagine reproductive labor considering fundamental changes in regard to labor, technology, intergenerational sharing, gender, class and many other aspects of living together. How can we create safe spaces that are simultaneously creative, adventurous and politically active? How do we share worries and anxieties, desire and intimacy, visions and harbor political change as caregivers and fellow human beings? Reimagining reproductive labor is also a fertile ground to practice alternative forms of ecology; mental, relational and environmental, beyond extractivist industrialism and the destruction of the earth.

We welcome participation interested in care redistribution, future speculation, and speaking and moving, regardless of experience.

Concept: Suh Yeongran
Collaborator: Wie Sunghee, Jung Eonjin, Jung Leesu, Lee Suna, Lee Seolae
Co-produced by Ob/scene Festival, Idea Museum (Leeum)

This program is presented with the support of 2024 ARKO International Arts Network.

Suh Yeongran is a choreographer and practice-based researcher active in Copenhagen and Seoul. She creates multidisciplinary dance performances based on her background in anthropology, shamanism and traditional dance. Between dance and creating situations Suh Yeongran’s work reconnects with the ancient, intimacies with the organic and mythological, offering viewers and participants, in a safe space, to explore their own agency in regard to care, motherhood, female friendship and politics of gathering. She is a member of Becoming Species, a climate activism performance group, writes, guides workshops and creates works on multi-species, traditional ecological knowledge, and collective storytelling.