Ika Schwander / Frascati Producties - Of all your words and soft strange ways

A duet between generations

Together they show an intermediate space in which two bodies meet. A duet between generations. They meet in silence, in pain, in an area of not wanting to be there. In a world between two lives.

They investigate how the (sick) body relates to a world in destruction. The body mourns, the disease of the world seeps through your skin and infects your thoughts, until you no longer know what or who you are in this irreversible decay. What can we learn from people who no longer want or cannot be here in human form?

Ika was inspired by American Julia Butterfly Hill, who had to recover from a near-fatal car accident at a young age. Hill later became best known as a climate activist who, as a protest against deforestation, lived in a centuries-old sequoia tree for 738 days.