This month ResidenceSEA is hosting two artists from Estonia:
Nele Suisalu (dancer and vocal artist) and
Maarja Tõnisson (dancer and performance artist).

They call themselves hackers of the human body-voice-mind.

The working title for their collaboration is Affectspace. Quoting the artists: “Affectspace is a performative work relying on two-voiced and two-bodied hybrid entity aiming to create a multi-sensorial space for the spectator/experience or to take place in. Considering movement/sound to be a trigger of the affective reaction process within each and every audience member. Voice as a body part. Dance as vibrations in the body.

We are interested in research-oriented and curiosity-based art: our final forms are defined by experimenting with the chosen materials and feeding them on feedback. We are focusing on opening up and entering into subject-matters as phenomena to be discovered and made perceptible. The meaning-making lies in trying to connect with audience and to absorb it into the present moment and experience. We consider movement/sound to be a sensory affective process within each and every audience member. ” 

The artists will stay at ResidenceSEA until the end of February. Below we show some of their previous works: