Klang 2025: Throat Pleats: Elasticene

The ticket for Klang Festival 12/6 grants access to the whole day.

Programme:
5.30 pm: Nyklang
6.30 pm: Lytterum #1 - Publikums tanker og oplevelser modereret af Matthew Grouse
7.30 pm: Throat Pleats: Elasticene

Elasticene is a performance work by duo Throat Pleats. Combining experimental music, sound installation, movement, and speculative fiction, Throat Pleats embark on a material exploration of latex, plastic, and rubber as lively agents in imagined lives. As the philosopher Jane Bennett has argued, twenty-first-century humans have a “habit of parsing the world into dull matter (things) and vibrant life (beings)”. In Elasticene, however, the man-made materials of the Anthropocene have fled their makers to form new weird ecologies and imagined futures where materials and beings biologically entangle. In Elasticene, Throat Pleats dismantles the boundaries between instrument and performer. Amidst environmental collapse, the work positions synthetic materials as both collaborators and antagonists in a choreographed negotiation of breath, resistance, and play. The balloon – a delicate expanding petrochemical membrane containing human breath – becomes a metaphor for the body’s entanglement with industrial ecologies and a collective rising anxiety about impending climate disaster. Throat Pleats musically repurposes detritus of the Anthropocene to find joy, strangeness, and beauty amidst a world choked by our material creations, presenting a posthuman, anti-virtuosic reimagining of what a contemporary musical performance might look like in the twenty-first century.