Isabel Lewis en, The Field en
Scalable Skeletal Escalator
2022, stage version
realised in collaboration with Pavillon ADC
Scalable Skeletal Escalator (SSE) is an experimental artwork designed in the form of a holobiont, a multiple organic assemblage, like the human body, shaking and shivering with life. This way of creating is inspired by evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, who refers to cooperative and symbiotic relationships between species as the driving force of evolution. In her projects, Isabel Lewis challenges the disembodied systems of thought in the West. SSE continues this practice by inviting collaborators and visitors to participatory epistemological research to discover the body, activated by all its senses. SSE was created as a living exhibition and adapted to the stage.
Distribution
Concept: Isabel Lewis / Performers: The Field (Lucia Gugerli, Pierre Piton, Mirjam Jamuna Zweifel), Rafał Pierzyński / Custom speaker system: Dirk Bell, Mo Stern / Costume design: Yolanda Zobel, Marcelo Alcaide / Music: LABOUR (Colin Hacklander and Farahnaz Hatam) / Smell: Sissel Tolaas / Artwork: Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (courtesy of Kamel Mennour – Fitzpatrick Gallery – Mendes Wood DM) / Set design: Isabel Lewis, Dirk Bell / Tanzhaus Zurich dramaturgical advisors: Simon Froehlich, Lea Moro / Production manager Isabel Lewis Studio: Stefania Palumbo / Production manager The Field: Leslie Philbert, and artistic collaboration Marisa Godoy, Romain Guion / Photos: Maxi Schmitz / Coproduction: Tanzhaus Zürich, Kunsthalle Zürich, Callie’s Berlin / Support: BNP Paribas Foundation Switzerland (main partner The Field), City of Zurich Culture, Nestlé Foundation for the Arts (partnership The Field), Migros Culture Percentage, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Landys & Gyr Foundation, Department of Culture of the Canton of Zurich, BNP Paribas Corporate Philanthropy