Out of mind

“It takes more than one brain to make a mind” (after Lisa Feldmann Barrett)

Can perception and thinking be localized - in an organ, in a body, at a certain time? Can inside and outside be grasped by looking at individual neurotransmitters, media or nerve cells? Are we rather swimming in a dark sea of indeterminacy, in which only brief shimmering moments of apparent cognition ever occur? In her new work OUT OF MIND, Eva Meyer-Keller  together with her accomplices, develops scenic and physical approaches to what we call consciousness and experience. She takes neuroscientific approaches as a starting point to undertake a deep dive into a slippery terrain of uncertainties. The performers explore the inherent life of neurons and neural systems in arrhythmic loops, engaging in bodily processes of decay and transformation from the perspective of bacteria, and experiment with the peculiarities of fluids and emulsions. The theatre space becomes an experimental laboratory in which our habitual modes of perception are questioned and more-than-human actors enter the scene.