Luca Borsos, Ágnes Grélinger, Kinga Szemessy, Napsugár Trömböczky
The SVUNG Research Group was founded in 2019 in Hungary, and has been run by dancers and applied theater creators, yet they are also trained in permaculture, forest bathing, nature guidance, rock climbing and have been living with animals or in rural areas.
After designing various art mediation and participatory events in conventional theatre and studio settings, along the Covid pandemic, we decided to investigate the nonanthropocentric potentials of participatory art. We also experienced a focused interest in outdoor experiments, nature and human connection.
Our last two productions tackle with exchanging the ego to an ecological thinking, altering states to be able to comprehend deep time and the naturalness of dying, imaging worlds that are not present or not graspable, and (re-)discovering elements that both the human body and the rocks possess: salt, lime, interconnected systems etc. By them, they propose a paradigm shift in which nature is not detached, outside of us, but inherent, a kin. In other words, they subtly propose the queering of environmental activism into eco-somatic activism – not as a better, but maybe a more long-lasting alternative.
