Entropy
Photography, Videography: Tamu.fotos
Entropy is a butoh-theatre and speculative world-building practice that explores queer and posthuman concepts of inhabiting other possible bodies. The project integrates latex prosthetics, scenographic installations, and sonic augmentations to explore hybridized and speculative corporealities that warp human anatomical and behavioral norms.
Entropy envisions, through butoh and the prosthetic imagination, categories of the body and human as physically and ontologically fluid, unstable, and malleable. The performances engage with the bodily capacities of real or imagined creatures, such as skin-shedding, exoskeletal transformations, externalized digestion, and fluid secretion, as well the movement qualities of various creatures.
Prosthetics are used to transpose, exaggerate, or manipulate these mechanisms or qualities, imagining new human assemblages that blur the boundaries between species, function, and form. Entropy considers the conditions under which such hybrid bodies might emerge, exploring notions of error, slippage, and mutation as generative forces. The intention is to mobilize alternative futures, political imaginaries, and post-human and / or more than human ethics.
every memory was lost with the place
Performance: Oryx
Poetry: Oryx
Installation: Alejandra Horsley
Location: Hosek Contemporary, Berlin
Photography: Sandro, Rod
2025
every memory was lost with the place that housed it is a butoh work performed within Ida, a site-specific architectural installation by Alejandra Horsley at Hosek Contemporary Berlin. The choreography unfolds as a visual poem, developed from a series of poems by Oryx exploring magical realism, folkloric mythology, and the entanglement of absence, intimacy, and alienation.
The work approaches magical realism as an embodied practice and a way of perceiving, where gesture and action operate as psychomagical interventions—transforming inner states through ritualised movement and physical experimentation, and blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior worlds.
Normal
by Matilde Flors Usinger & Observatorio del Placer (OdP)
Performers:
Matilde Flors Usinger
Göksu Vesuydu
Rasmus Balling
Oryx
Kat / Retrorexx
Julie Savery
Kulshedra
Rio
Polina Sonis
Miro Von
Lucie Froehlich
Observatorio del Placer
Marlen Pflüger
Aïchatou Glitch
Oscar Martin
Fe (Sixth.Faith)
Bjork Paulse (Mynte Official)
Timothée Nay
Bea Bayón
Vio
Sarah Zoe
Frida Grant
Futureviiii
Isa Plattpfirsich
Marta (t2nanekp24)
Em (heybabeitsem)
Sound: Rosa Anschuetz
Location: Studio DB Berlin
Photographer: @kata_kwiatkowska @pinkyschamber
Normal on Instagram: @normies.online
Normal is an ongoing project by Matilde Flor Usinger and Observatorio del Placer (OdP) that explores notions of normality, intimacy, and collective experience through somatic and performative practices. In this iteration, 30 performers collaborated to create a dynamic body installation, forming objects, machines, and spaces with their bodies. Over the course of a three-hour durational performance, the audience was invited to engage with and activate these living structures.
The installation aimed to examine, challenge, and expand concepts of intimacy, vulnerability, objectification, and spatial embodiment. Objectification, rather than being a reductive force, was approached as a generative tool—fostering connection and resonance within the collective process.
Performers became integral elements of an interactive environment, dissolving the boundaries between body, object, and space. Through this interplay, the audience was prompted to reconsider the ways in which bodies, communication, and spatial dynamics co-create intimacy and relationality.
The body-formed structures included massage chairs, tables, a rug, an exercise bike, and a playground with elements such as limbo, a jump rope, a slide, a tunnel, and a trampoline. Additionally, the body installation featured a Rube Goldberg-inspired sink, a toilet, an escape room, and a stretching machine, among others.