Interactive Phone Call Performance
1-800-LONGING4IT is a one-on-one live performance that happens late at night on the phone.
Mass Hysteria - an all female, multinational collective of twelve performers based in London - have invited Leah Marojević to create a new work for them in a time when disembodied intimacy and loneliness soar across our present and into the foreseeable. Audiences are invited to book a time-slot with an individual from the collective to experience an intimate sound performance/conversation suspended in the imaginative space shared between two bodies.
This work employs the format of phone sex hotlines and personal ads as a means to problematise how virtual connection and female bodies are consumed. These audio choreographies comprise twelve fictional fantasies that serve to queer normative power roles, prioritise care, pleasure and dreaming and momentarily release both performer and audience from reality… if you’re LONGING4IT, call now!
About Leah Marojević:
Leah Marojević is a Serbian/Montenegrin/Italian/British queer independent artist whose practice spans performance, dramaturgy, choreography, rehearsal directing, writing, teaching, curation and mentorship. Leah collaborates regularly with Theo Clinkard and Colette Sadler, and has worked with choreographers, visual artists and companies; Sarah Browne, Paulina Olowska, Joe Moran, Sam Williams, Holly Blakey, Megan Rooney, Candoco Dance Company, Clod Ensemble, Skånes Dansteater, Seke Chimutengwende, and Becky Hilton among others.
Concept, Choreography and Design: Leah Marojević
Artworks: James St Findlay
Realised in collaboration with and performed by: Mass Hysteria Collective
Instagram:
@leahmarojevic
@masshysteriacollective
Interactive Phone Call Performance
1-800-LONGING4IT is a one-on-one live performance that happens late at night on the phone.
Mass Hysteria - an all female, multinational collective of twelve performers based in London - have invited Leah Marojević to create a new work for them in a time when disembodied intimacy and loneliness soar across our present and into the foreseeable. Audiences are invited to book a time-slot with an individual from the collective to experience an intimate sound performance/conversation suspended in the imaginative space shared between two bodies.
This work employs the format of phone sex hotlines and personal ads as a means to problematise how virtual connection and female bodies are consumed. These audio choreographies comprise twelve fictional fantasies that serve to queer normative power roles, prioritise care, pleasure and dreaming and momentarily release both performer and audience from reality… if you’re LONGING4IT, call now!
Concept, Choreography and Design: Leah Marojević
Artworks: James St Findlay
Realised in collaboration with and performed by: Mass Hysteria Collective
Instagram:
@leahmarojevic
@masshysteriacollective