BADDANCE WITH THEBAD­WEEDS

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This parti­cip­at­ory install­a­tion invites visit­ors to undergo a trans­form­a­tion and join THEBAD­WEEDS, a trans-species music group that is part-human, part-plant. Its hybrid members embody a queer ecolo­gical trans­ition: they grow from obli­vion, cracks, and the most inhos­pit­able places, humor­ously demon­strat­ing the resi­li­ence and resist­ance of weeds. The immers­ive exper­i­ence invites the audi­ence to trans­form and mutate through dance, offer­ing a fest­ive and play­ful perspect­ive on ecolo­gical trans­ition.

“We must now learn to feed no longer on death (oil) but on life (the sun).” Eco-respons­ible commit­ment also involves the desire and the will to embrace attract­ive futures, to parti­cip­ate in an imagin­at­ive world based on pleas­ure. In response to cata­strophic, alarm­ist, anxious and fatal­istic imagin­ar­ies, to imagin­ar­ies of fear and guilt, Rocio Berenguer has taken up the chal­lenge of creat­ing an eco-sexy story: THEBAD­WEEDS.

The members of this music group are trans: trans-species, trans-plan­et­ary, they embody ecolo­gical, femin­ist and queer trans­itions, and the abil­ity to live where they are not expec­ted: in the margins and in the centres, in the cities and in the fields. They embody this uncon­trol­lable life force that, against all odds and beyond all control, flour­ishes. Initially created as a concert perform­ance, this parti­cip­at­ory adapt­a­tion was commis­sioned by mudac to allow every­one to mutate, to exper­i­ence the trans­ition, to become one of them. The install­a­tion offers a three-part jour­ney: the first part, where one discov­ers the universe of THEBAD­WEEDS through a video; the second, where one dances to mutate (our new plant body forms as we perform the move­ments of the choreo­graphy); and the third, where one finds one’s new mutant body. Proof, if any were needed, that the future will be vegetal!

Cred­its
An Original Work of Rocio Berenguer in collab­or­a­tion with;
Game design on Unreal Engine by Ferran Belda, Web design by Pere Calopa Piedra, 3D motion design by Guil­laume Gravier, Motion detec­tion analysis by Leo Chedin, Music HERB­I­CIDE composed by Killason, EATTHESUN and  TAKO­MAK composed by Baptiste Malgoire, writ­ten by Rocio Berenguer.
Commis­sioned by MUDAC on the occa­sion of Soleil·s / Solar Bien­nale 2 currently presen­ted at mudac, Lausanne, Switzer­land.