for heat and fervor

performance, 2023

nominated for swiss performance art award 2023, kunsthaus baselland, muttenz (ch)

direction & composition—marc norbert hörler
performers—steffi dietz, marc norbert hörler, ribka neway, sara vidal cabré
dramaturgy—joannie baumgärtner
garments—laurent hermann progin
sound design—pablo giménez arteaga
makeup—seraina kraushaar
kind support—innerrhoder kunststiftung, dr. fred styger stiftung, hans und wilma stutz stiftung, kanton basel-landschaft

photography: karin salathé
videography: christoph oertli

for heat and fervor invokes an alpine form of spell craft and centers the voice and olfactory perception as tools for queer world-making. the performance is rooted in a continuous research into the occult and its contemporary reclamation from a deviant perspective. in activating noses and mouths, the performance employs the sensuous tools marginalised by a culture dominated by the visual and imagines an affective realm in which those entities form a generative poetic weave. voices conjure a choir in polyphony and dissonance, in magical enunciation and linguistic excess. diffusing scent and wearing deconstructed garments made from old, the performers' bodies become affective and sensorial sites of potentiality.