Materize

The interdisciplinary performance Materize interweaves sound, movement and space. The performers play the wearable electronic instrument Hreyfð, which makes sound with gestures using feedback and sensors. Thus, the performers are simultaneously dancers, musicians and a sound system.

The instrument Hreyfð symbolises the transition of technology merging with the human body — a progression humanity rapidly approaches. The development of intelligent technology is primarily focused on technicality, while its effects on compassion, care and interpersonal connections tend to be forgotten. What happens when technology becomes human? Can technology have an intimate emotional relationship with a human? The title Materize refers to the word “matter” and the formation of the intangible, as well as the Latin word “mater”, meaning mother. But who is the mother of technology, and who will care for her? And what happens when compassion is forgotten in technological development?

Sól Ey is a composer and new media artist who makes performances, interactive installations and designs instruments that combine sound, space, movement, light and the body. She studied composition at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague and was a research fellow at the Academy for Theatreand Digitality in Dortmund in 2022.  She is the composer-in-residence with Ensemble Modelo62 until 2026.

Guests are free to stand and move around the space but chairs will be available.

Composistion, instrument design and concept: Sól Ey
Choreographer: Alvilda Faber Striim
Costume designer: Daphne Karstens
Light design and programming assistant: Nathan Marcus 
Performers: Abraham Rademacher DK/ES, Alvilda Faber Striim DK, Paulina Šmatláková SK/DK, Sól Ey IS/DK
Mentor: Marina Mascarell ES
Producer: Bad Circuit