infinity kiss

Layton Lachman 

In consortium with Samuel Hertz, Cajsa Godée, Camila Malenchini & Arta de Mi

October 26, 2024

Theater Im Depot, Dortmund DE

“Symbiotic interaction is the stuff of life on a crowded planet. Our symbiogenetic composite core is far older than the recent innovation we call the individual human. Our strong sense of difference from any other life-form, our sense of species superiority, is a delusion of grandeur.”   ––Lynn Margulis

infinity kiss conjures a complex, wild, and unexpected series of encounters. We dance the dance of the symbiotic ones, the self-devouring ones, and the ancient clonally multiplying ones. Within a dense sonic and visual landscape, bodily networks converge—aroused and excited—playing between individuality and the materiality of our interconnectedness. We spawn and respawn, exhausted by the drive to replicate and yet bristling at the touch of another. We propose stories of horizontal genetic exchange and long-lasting intimacy between strangers. Follow us into an inter-species celebration, a queer cruise: a primordial, biological ooze which inevitably merges with everything it touches.

infinity kiss celebrates the multi-biological flourishing that occurs the world over. It diligently searches for the diversity of life-making and kin-making strategies that have always existed, amplifying and holding onto them as signs of hope. infinity kiss is our gleaning practice of looking for the symbiotic beings, the collaborative support structures, the excited and aroused organisms that are pressing up against each other so hard that those we imagined as separate begin to merge.

At Theater Im Depot, infinity kiss unfolds this gleaning practice, searching the area, the grounds, the rooms, plants and bodies for our collective histories and futures, amplifying the diversity of ways of being in connection with our social and ecological environments.