LAYTON LACHMAN

infinity kiss

by Layton Lachman

Created & Performed in consortium with: 

ALEXA GRAE, Arta de Mi, Cajsa Godée, Camila Malenchini, Caroline Neill Alexander, Dan Immanuel Roth, Effie Bowen, Estado Flotatnte, Ethan Allison Folk, John Hoobyar, Kalil Bat, Nagi Gianni, Samuel Hertz, & wro wrzesińska

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infinity kiss conjures a complex, wild, and unexpected series of encounters. We dance the dance of the parasite, the symbiote, the self-devouring ones, the ancient clonally multiplying ones. Within a dense sonic and visual landscape, a network of bodies converge–aroused and excited–playing between individuality and the materiality of our interconnectedness. We spawn and respawn again, exhausted by the drive to replicate and yet bristling at the touch of another. We propose new 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.

“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

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