https://tyrawigg.com Tyra Wigg Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:10:15 +0000 https://tyrawigg.com en http://tyrawigg.com/Lick-Life Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:10:15 +0000 Tyra Wigg 457096 Lick Life Against the Direction of Its Fur Read: Are the ghosts with us now? Reflections on Lick Life Against the Direction of Its Fur by Persis Bekkering “How could one gain a bit of time forward when faced with an acute shortage of future? The simple answer: by going a bit backward in time.” Haunted by a lost future, three performers summon dances and fashions of the 1980s: an era where former hippies put their hope into market liberalism, where bright colours, campy jazz dance moves, and eccentric individuals dominated. Where algorithms, doomscrolling, and neofascism were already ghostly present. The future might be lost, but with a tragicomical insistence, Lick Life Against the Direction of Its Fur states that “weird” is a powerful act of freedom and resistance. The piece unfolds in two chapters, like two sides of the same coin. On one side: a desire to retreat into the familiar territory of the past. On the other: the gut, screaming that the only place to live is now, in intimate friction with the shit that it entails. In between: a “metabolic rift” – the irreparable rupture between humans and nature that is inherent to capitalism.Premiere at Kaserne Basel (CH)September 10-14, 2025Tour:far° festival Nyon (CH) August 2026 <img width="3031" height="2771" width_o="3031" height_o="2771" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c55a1c1a77c64b90406c2f7cf65f0139920cc29885e0e9d6cf1c4cdc6a7dfa09/Lick-Life-PR-image-by-Michelle-Ettlin.jpg" data-mid="1410170" border="0" data-scale="50"/> Credits Concept, choreography: Tyra Wigg Dance, performance: Kihako Narisawa, Jessica Tamsin Alleman, Declan Whitaker/Antoine Weil Sound: Elischa Heller Light design, technical direction: Chiara Leonhardt Costume: Anne-Sophie Raemy, Tyra Wigg&nbsp; Stage objects:&nbsp; Ernestyna Orlowska,&nbsp;Tyra Wigg Dramaturgy: Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez Sound technician: Pam Meyer Production: Paula Alonso Gomez Pre-production &amp; fundraising: Caroline Froelich, Moin Moin Produktion Production assistant: Lean Rüegg Co-production: Kaserne Basel Support: Fachausschuss für Darstellende Künste Basel-Stadt/Baselland, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Stiftung Landis &amp; Gyr Residencies: Kaserne Basel, Gessnerallée Zürich, CAMPO Gent Tour (so far): far° Festival Nyon 2026 Additional choreography credits: David Byrne, Meredith Monk, Twyla Tharp, Trisha Brown, Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones, Jeffrey Hornaday Sound credits: Voices by Kihako Narisawa, Jessica Tamsin Alleman, Declan Whitaker, Tyra Wigg, Elischa Heller, Screams by Sam Ramer, Sab Barzer, Milena Sentobe, Elischa Heller The Soundtrack includes samples of the following songs: Videosex – Detektivska priča, Grauzone – Eisbär, DAF – Erste DAF Probe, Hamid el Shaeri – Kawahel, DAF – Liebe auf den ersten Blick, Madonna – Like a Prayer, David Hasselhoff – Looking for Freedom, Talking Heads – Love For Sale, Madonna – Lucky Star, Vangelis – Main Titles, Delta 5 – Mind Your Own Business, Madonna – Papa don’t Preach, Salt-N-Pepa – Push It, Franco Battiato – Radio Varsavia, Eric Serra – The Big Blue (Ouverture), Van Helden – Jump, Suzanne Ciani – The First Wave – Birth Of Venus, F.R. David – Words, De La Soul – (3 Is) The Magic Number, Imperiet – Du ska va President, Madonna – Express Yourself, Meiko Nakahara – Gigolo, Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Nu Shooz – I Can’t Wait, Minor Threat – I Don’t Wana Hear It, Robert Gört &amp; DAF – Im Schatten, Roxette – It Must Have Been Love, The Commodores – Nightshift, F.R. David – Pick Up The Phone, Whitney Houston &amp; Jermaine Jackson – Shock Me, This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren, Suzanne Ciani – The Second Wave – Sirens, David Sylvian – Before The Bullfight, Meiko Nakahara – Coconut No Kataomoi, LL Cool J – Get Down, Front 242 – I’m Rhythmus Bleiben, Madonna – Like A Virgin, Yello – Oh Yeah, The Screamers – Peer Pressure, Krokus – Screaming In The Night, Jermaine Jackson – (Closest Thing To) Perfect, De La Soul – Cool Breeze On The Rocks (Melted Version), Eric Carmen – Hungry Eyes, Denis &amp; Denis – Ja Sam Lažljiva, Meiko Nakahara – Pearl No Manicure, Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time, RUN-DMC – Walk This Way (feat. Aerosmith), France Gall – Ella, Elle L’a, D.O.A. – I Don’t Give A Shit, Nitzer Ebb – Join In The Chant, ABBA – Lay All Your Love On Me, Suzanne Ciani – The Fifth Wave – Water Lullaby, Carola - Fångad av en stormvind (Swedish Version), Alphaville – Forever Young, Meiko Nakahara – Friday Night, De La Soul - enifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge), Vanessa Paradis – Joe Le Taxi, Krokus – Stayed Awake All Night, Imperiet - Var e vargen&nbsp; (Remix 1995), Au Pairs – Armagh, Vangelis – Blade Runner Blues, The Cure – Close To Me, Naked Roommate – Fill Space, Madonna – La Isla Bonita, Suicide – Love So Lonely, Denis &amp; Denis - Voli Me Još Ovu Noć, DEVO – Puppet Boy, Front 242 – Work 01, LL Cool J – I Need Love, Prince – Purple Rain, Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place (Naice Melody), Nena – Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann, Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart, Front 242 – Welcome To Paradise, Nena – 99 Luftballons, Vangelis – Blade Runner (End Titles), Kraftwerk – Tour de France, Roxette – Listen To Your Heart, Front 242 - Work 242 N.Off Is N.Off, Denis &amp; Denis - Program Tvog Kompjutera, Denis &amp; Denis – Soba 23, Irene Cara – Flashdance… What a Feeling, Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me), Japan – Ghosts, David Bowie – Let’s Dance, Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind, New Order – Blue Monday, Kraftwerk – Computer Love, Grace Jones – I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango), Laurie Anderson – O Superman, Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy, Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights, The Human League – Don’t You Want Me, a-ha – Take On Me, C. Spencer Yeh – Solo Voice I, C. Spencer Yeh – Solo Voice VI, Gerogeriegegege – Night T2 – T4, Mike Patton – Adult Themes For Voice &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="2362" height="709" width_o="2362" height_o="709" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b299a5889510644087d908f8e13306af0a5e7dc4b01ea1fde1199e05e9237474/fa.png" data-mid="1410238" border="0" data-scale="43"/> &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="1000" height="287" width_o="1000" height_o="287" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4d1c34fe541fe66082dbd68c0aa47b808293a83994b118d8c9c288a3b2bf8a81/PRH_CD_CMYK_magenta_EN_LOGO.png" data-mid="1410172" border="0" data-scale="32"/> Image: Michelle Ettlin Lick Life Against the Direction of Its Fur Read: Are the ghosts with us now? Reflections on Lick Life Against the Direction of Its Fur by Persis Bekkering... http://tyrawigg.com/LOP Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:56:34 +0000 Tyra Wigg 455575 LIFE OF PLENTY <img width="1627" height="1627" width_o="1627" height_o="1627" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e8a22030f6dcb7951e4b85cab798a4e386f9ec94e2fb448749429bd5544b5b5e/dossier.jpg" data-mid="1392973" border="0" /> Research project and lecture performance around embodied relations to the attention economy of social media. Research presentation website:&nbsp;https://lop.differentspace.com/ Lecture performance presented during “Cliffhanger” at Kaserne Basel June 2024Credits: LOP website: Jürgen BuchingerMovement research: Declan Whitacker Kihako Narisawa Clara Delorme Jessica Tamsin Alleman Deep talks and post-its: Natania Prezant Attention scape and psychology: Debora Draxl Philosophy: Gin Burri Outside eye: Natascha Moschini, Max Brands Music research: Marie Delprat Money, space, time, and many forms of support: Kaserne LAB Fachausschuss Basel-Stadt/Baselland Migros Kulturprozent LIFE OF PLENTY Research project and lecture performance around embodied relations to the attention economy of social media. Research presentation... http://tyrawigg.com/The-Strokes Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:47:22 +0000 Tyra Wigg 453973 The Strokes <img width="2817" height="1233" width_o="2817" height_o="1233" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f03b80088e93648f56c127c0f2aa616b1ead310b4317343b98dc1b4f97f4359a/Female-Gaze_Schinkel-Pavillon-015-copy.jpg" data-mid="1374738" border="0" /> For The Strokes, I invited cellist Stellan Veloce to add music and composed noise as further dimensions of touch to the “phantom massage”—a performative practice that I developed for my solo project limb limb limb. In the phantom massage, I recall my hand gestures and haptic memory from giving therapeutic touch to massage clients. With precise focus, I reproduce the investigating and caring gestures and project them towards the spectators’ bodies and towards the architecture of the space. Eventually I concentrate the focus towards an imaginary body that is taking shape between my hands. The imaginary body comes to act as an ever-morphing proxy, intersecting performer and spectator. The cello is here approached as a material proxy. With a shape resembling a human torso, it is treated through touch by the player, releasing soundwaves that vibrate the bodies of the audience in pleasurable and painful affect. In an intimate dialogue, Stellan Veloce and I are co-creating a space filled with phantom touch: long sliding strokes, intense pressure, and quick manipulations. The Strokes embraces the dynamic qualities made possible through touch without physical limits. It queers common gendered connotations with therapeutic touch, conveying that "care" goes beyond the feminized properties that we usually ascribe to it. Care is healing, creative, playful, rough, expressive, and highly transformative. Even if they were not touched physically in a concrete way, the audience members might leave the performance feeling as if they have had a treatment: with an altered perception of their own bodies. At the end of the performance, I recite a self-written text that interweaves actual elements in the performance space with an imaginary care facility. This act creates both an intimate connection with the shared room, and lets us imagine it differently, as a space for collective sensory healing. The Strokes is a commissioned work as part of the choreographic format FEMALE GAZE - curation and concept by Carolin Brandl, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.Premiered at Schinkel Pavillon Berlin 24.2.2024 Duration: flexible / 30 minConcept, choreography, performance: Tyra Wigg Music, performance: Stellan Veloce Outside eye: Thea Reifler Additionally supported by Basel Stadt Kultur Photo:&nbsp; Monika Karczmarczyk The Strokes For The Strokes, I invited cellist Stellan Veloce to add music and composed noise as further dimensions of touch to the “phantom... http://tyrawigg.com/calendar Tue, 17 Oct 2023 09:50:18 +0000 Tyra Wigg 449143 Upcoming: FEBRUARY - APRIL 2026 Artist in Residence at Fundaziun Nairs(CH) MAY 15 &amp; 16 2026 SQUEEZE Museum Allschwil with Fachwerk Allschwil and PREMIO(CH) AUGUST 21 &amp; 22 2026 Lick Life Against the Direction of Its Fur far° festival Nyon(CH) Past:April 11 2026 More than a Metaphor Work-in-progress performanceFundaziun Nairs(CH) FEBRUARY 29 2026Audiovisual set at Sound Bar at Museum Tinguely(CH) OCTOBER 26 2025 Collective version of phone massage with Touch Praxis LA(US). OCTOBER &nbsp;8 - 11 2025Performing and choreographing Syner vakt i stöv by Inga Gerner NielsenInteractive performance at UCN nurse education in Thisted(DK)https://limfjordsteatret.dk/events/syner-vakt-i-stoev/ SEPTEMBER 10, 12, 13, 14 2025 PREMIERE of my new choreographic work Lick Life Against the Direction of Its Fur Kaserne Basel (CH)AUGUST 14 2025 Performing The hand, the rock, your shoulder and my mouth. Museum Tinguely, Basel(CH) JULY 5-15 2025Participating in Transmission Impossible at Festival d’Avignon(FR) directed by Mathilde Monnier. Supported by Pro Helvetia JUNE 18, 19, 20 2025 Performing in Everything That Happened and Would Happen by Heiner Goebbels. La Villette, Paris(FR) MAY 19 - 31 2025Artist in residence at CAMPO Ghent(BE)Supported by Pro Helvetia APRIL 17 - 18 2025Performing with Container Collective and Marie JägerMulti Soft Konstanz, Basel(CH)More info coming up! MARCH 8 - 9 2025 Performing in Everything That Happened and Would Happenby Heiner GoebbelsTaipei Performing Art Center TPAC(TW)NOVEMBER 8 - 9 2024 &nbsp;SQUEEZE MDT Stockholm(SE) OCTOBER 18 - 19 2024 limb limb limb with Thy Truong Dance First Think Later, ArtaspertoLe Commun Genève(CH) &nbsp;SEPTEMBER 14 - 15 2024 CHUNKYby Ernestyna Orlowska ROXY Birsfelden(CH) AUGUST 23 - 25 2024 Everything That Happened and Would Happenby Heiner Goebbels Salzburger Festspiele(AT) AUGUST 17 - 18 2024 SQUEEZEfar° Nyon(CH)JUNE 29 - 30 2024 NAPS (adapted version) with Aram Abbas during the overnight festival ‘Über Nacht’&nbsp;Black Forest Institute of Art(DE) JUNE 8 2024 LIFE OF PLENTY Lecture performance&nbsp;Kaserne Basel(CH) JUNE 13 2024 Blasphemic Reading SoiréesApartment Avalon, Basel(CH) APRIL 4 2024 EEZE massage performance installation with Simon Fleury and Nya Buerki Cabane B, Bern(CH) FEBRUARY 24 2024 The StrokesCommissioned work as part of the choreographic format FEMALE GAZE - curation and concept by Carolin Brandl. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin(DE)FEBRUARY 26-28 2024 Teaching LAB for professional dancers Tanzbüro Basel(CH) DECEMBER 8 2023 Wort.Macht.Widerstand&nbsp;live podcast with Mandy Abou Shoak Theater Neumarkt, Zurich(CH) DECEMBER 9 &amp; 10 2023 limb immersed Kunsthalle Basel / Regionale24(CH)DECEMBER 1 2023 UKI by Shu Lea Cheang Porny Days Film Festival, Zürich(CH) DECEMBER 2 &amp; 3 2023 SQUEEZE Les Urbaines, Lausanne(CH) DECEMBER 2, 3, 4 2023 CHUNKY by Ernestyna Orlowska&nbsp; Dampfzentrale Bern(CH) NOVEMBER 18 &amp; 19 2023 SQUEEZE depARTures / ACCESS TO DANCE Joint Adventures, Münich(DE) NOVEMBER 9 - 12 2023 SQUEEZE&nbsp;PREMIERE ROXY Birsfelden / Kunsthaus Baselland(CH) JULY 22 2023UKI by Shu Lea Cheang Film screening and live performance LAS Art Foundation, Berlin(DE) Upcoming: FEBRUARY - APRIL 2026 Artist in Residence at Fundaziun Nairs(CH) MAY 15 &amp; 16 2026 SQUEEZE Museum Allschwil with Fachwerk Allschwil and... http://tyrawigg.com/texts Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:38:00 +0000 Tyra Wigg 447335 PUBLICATIONS More Than Bare Life -essay by Tyra Wigg as part of&nbsp;In the Mirror of Care Work (TABLOID press, 2023). The essay got chosen to represent the project in PW Magazine 2023 INTERVIEWS Interview with BZ 2023&nbsp;Audience talk after the presentation of Physical Empathy at ROXY Birsfelden 2022, with Tyra Wigg, Nele Gittermann and professional nurse Isabelle Stocker Interview with Wiewärsmalmit 2021 ABOUT Are the ghosts with us now?Reflections on Lick Life Against the Direction of Its Furby Persis Bekkering REVIEWS Review of SQUEEZE at MDT Moderna Dansteatern by C-Print Journal&nbsp;(2024)Review of Physical Empathy and interview with Danstidningen (magazine on the Scandinvian dance scene)(2021)Swedish English (translation) Review of NAPS by Thomas Olsson in Svenska Dagbladet English (translation) OTHERReflection by Tyra Wigg on two reference works to SQUEEZE: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong &amp;Squeeze by Mika Rottenberg PUBLICATIONS More Than Bare Life -essay by Tyra Wigg as part of&nbsp;In the Mirror of Care Work (TABLOID press, 2023). The essay got chosen to represent the... http://tyrawigg.com/squeeze Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:27:52 +0000 Tyra Wigg 446617 SQUEEZE SQUEEZE invites you to experience different dimensions of massage therapy. This ancient healing method is here lifted out of the treatment room and translated into a social choreography.&nbsp; Driven by haptic desire and curiosity in anatomy, five performers knead, press, shake and stretch body tissues, thick textiles, and in-between spaces. From these actions, sculptural constellations emerge and dissolve, imbued with pleasure-pain and tension-relief.&nbsp; Before entering, the audience members are given a “touch-consent sticker” that they can take on and off at anytime if they want/don’t want to be touched by the performers.&nbsp;&nbsp; Duration: 60 min + voluntary post-performance 15 min massage workshop.&nbsp;Everyone is welcome to stay in the room, relax, chat, and practice massage after the performance. <img width="1280" height="1920" width_o="1280" height_o="1920" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/aaa844552e1cb56951b7841e9cb2b9a31ce7f4e6ee50b80c2499ff9527c79a29/1F1A6274.jpg" data-mid="1337327" border="0" data-scale="65"/> &gt;&gt;Link to Tyra reflecting on two reference works to SQUEEZE: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong &amp; Squeeze by Mika Rottenberg&lt;&lt; PREMIERE 9, 10, 11, 12.2023 Kunsthaus Baselland / Roxy Birsfelden TOUR 18, 19.11.2023&nbsp; &nbsp;depARTures / ACCESS TO DANCE Joint Adventures, Münich (DE) 2 - 3.12.2023 Les Urbaines, Lausanne (CH) 17 - 18.08.2024 Festival far°, Nyon (CH)8 - 9.11.2024 MDT Stockholm (SE) 15 - 16.5.2026 Fachwerk Allschwil (CH) “The chemistry and dynamics between the performers are ultimately what make this piece something to remember in the moment. They’re instant strangers but here you are responding with an empathetic chord to the countenance they display with each other, whether you expected to be touched or not.” -&nbsp;Ashik Zaman, C-print Journal Credits: Concept, choreography: Tyra Wigg Performance, development: Simon Fleury, Tejus Menon, Natascha Moschini, Yixuan Xiao, Tyra Wigg/Marie Popall Sound design, live DJ: Nya Buerki aka Graue Kreide Costume, scenography: Ernestyna Orlowska, Carolina Misztela, Tyra Wigg Dramaturgical support: Johanna Hilari, Sonja Jokiniemi Choreographic development: Mariana My Suikkanen Gomes Music development: Thy Truong, Nya Bürki, Tyra Wigg Production: Bernhard la Dous, produktionsDOCK Touring: produktionsDOCK &amp; Moin Moin Productions Co-production: ROXY Birsfelden, MDT Stockholm PREMIO award for emerging artists in performing arts Supported by: The committee for Dance and Theatre Basel-Stadt/Baselland, BLKB Jubiläumsstiftung, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Jaqueline Spengler Stiftung, Landis &amp; Gyr Stiftung, Pro Helvetia Created in residencies at ROXY Birsfelden, Dampfzentrale, MDT, Arsenic, Tanzhaus Zürich and Kaserne Basel A project supported by Danse &amp; Dramaturgie (D&amp;D CH), an initiative by Théâtre Sévelin 36 Lausanne, in association with Dampfzentrale Bern, ROXY Birsfelden, Südpol Luzern, Tanzhaus Zürich, TU-Théâtre de l’Usine Genève; funded by Pro Helvetia and SSA Société Suisse des Auteurs <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/37475d9ff0183d04fb31a79c5922be7ef247a177f7e34bbf58a37f6ab20e2c27/1F1A6322.jpg" data-mid="1337328" border="0" data-scale="80"/> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/09612d11d973625eaf1586358dae7f190fb3ca59ab12d278893d01c38671bee1/1F1A5977.jpg" data-mid="1337329" border="0" data-scale="80"/> Photos by Karin Salathé Review 2023Review 2024 SQUEEZE SQUEEZE invites you to experience different dimensions of massage therapy. This ancient healing method is here lifted out of the... http://tyrawigg.com/limb-limb-limb Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:30:20 +0000 Tyra Wigg 438972 limb limb limb <img width="851" height="1280" width_o="851" height_o="1280" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b4b2b99403a6aad3cecba65ac94735feadee9b70d898571296a6dea66827dfee/_LOL9083-copy-Large.jpeg" data-mid="1275849" border="0" data-scale="70"/> Photo: Sascha Rijkeboer limb limb limb is a solo with many actors. A tactile soundscape which carries memories of touch is projected through four surrounding speakers. There is a shapeshifting performer, a grey figure. Are they a pile of rocks? A massage therapist? Cyborg? Dancer? There is the audience, spread out in the space, highly present in each other’s eyesight. Free to move and invited to rest. There is the architecture and materiality of the space itself, that just like the audience, is carefully investigated and treated by the performer. Between and through these elements, especially between the performer’s hands, something invisible yet highly tangible is approaching the senses. This fantasmical ever changing being is gossiping that a body, or the constructs around it, are only as solid as your fantasy allows it to be. Length: 45 min / flexible Choreography, performance: Tyra Wigg Sound, live mix: Thy Truong&nbsp; IG @_thytruong &nbsp;Costume: Ernestyna Orlowska http://www.ernestynaorlowska.com/ Mentorship/outside eye: Kathrin Veser, Lucie Tuma Supported by HKB Expanded Theatre and KASKO Basel Premiered 28+29.1.2023 at KASKO Basel. Further presentations: Traumburg festival, Germany, July 29.7.2023 Dance First Think LaterLe Commun Genève (CH) www.artasperto.ch limb limb limb Photo: Sascha Rijkeboer limb limb limb is a solo with many actors. A tactile soundscape which carries memories of touch is... http://tyrawigg.com/The-hand-the-rock-your-shoulder-and-my-mouth Wed, 15 Jun 2022 10:13:37 +0000 Tyra Wigg 425986 The hand, the rock, your shoulder and my mouth <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/676b6f43117450e810cfacd0878c6710a1b44930ebab2ac00cfc94251b44e21b/_Q1A1269.jpg" data-mid="1204401" border="0" />photo: Carla Schleiffer Concept, performance: Tyra Wigg Premiered at Shedhalle Zürich June 4, 2022, in the high-intensity phase of the protozone “Zones of Kinship, Love &amp; Playbour”curated by Lucie Tuma Special thanks to Rafal Pierzynski and the DIVAS, Miriam Coretta Schulte, Lucie Tuma, Katharina Germo, and many more, for your reciprocity and input during this continuous process. I collected this rock from the lake outside The Venue, to let it act as a medium, a steppingstone, between our bodies. I, the caregiver, treat you, the receiver, by inviting you to place your subjective corporeal perception inside the rock, and to absorb my caring hands and words. Sometimes, the rock emerges as a subject in itself, finding its own agency within the concrete space of The Venue. It calls for conversations with the other artworks, and maybe also with your hands. The hand, the rock, your shoulder, and my mouth, is the development of a recycled extract from my choreographic piece Physical Empathy, co-produced by Weld, Stockholm and ROXY Birsfelden 2021-22. The rock is always a local performer, scouted in proximity to each venue that has invited the practice. By building links between ourselves and this dense, ancient object, we are also re-establishing our links with nature, as well as with the time before and after us. The hand, the rock, your shoulder and my mouth photo: Carla Schleiffer Concept, performance: Tyra Wigg Premiered at Shedhalle Zürich June... http://tyrawigg.com/Artbortion Tue, 30 Mar 2021 22:13:40 +0000 Tyra Wigg 402130 Artbortion <img width="4928" height="3264" width_o="4928" height_o="3264" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1b93f6cfb0e35cc9ad79e890d86d962a0c07b1328db708e5a848568d76a8fa43/Artbortion-twins.jpg" data-mid="1391244" border="0" />Experimental short film (2021) "Artbortion" is a word game and a multi-layered contemplation on the removal of an unwanted life force through an expulsion ritual. Concept, performance, text, objects: Tyra Wigg Camera, editing: Sascha Rijkeboer Sound: Tyra Wigg &amp; Sascha Rijkeboer Artbortion Experimental short film (2021) "Artbortion" is a word game and a multi-layered contemplation on the removal of an unwanted life force through an... http://tyrawigg.com/Phone-massage Tue, 30 Mar 2021 22:12:37 +0000 Tyra Wigg 402129 phone massage <img width="1092" height="1918" width_o="1092" height_o="1918" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/3d8771c02976069c0ca9819e3317d17e067ad2becabb4bacf30aa2bb43143cdc/Inga.jpeg" data-mid="1080063" border="0" data-scale="59"/> During the difficulties of receiving massage clients during the pandemic I developed phone massage, inspired by the body/fantasy stimulating practice of phone sex. phone massage is a 1-on-1 interactive performance where I give an individually designed body treatment over the phone. The receiver is asked in advance to be in a calm surrounding where they can lay down comfortably without being disturbed. For an optimal experience the receiver has a good phone/internet reception and wears a headset with a pleasant sound quality. The session includes an interview during which I draw an image of the receiver’s body from their subjective description, encouraged to use a non-judgmental vocabulary. One is also encouraged to describe their body as something beyond the common notion of “human”. As as natural landscape, volumes, shapes, a mythical creature...The body-drawing acts as a template on which I note the current sensorial state and bodily needs and desires of the receiver. The “treatment” is an instant composition based on the interview. I use verbal descriptions of the massage, and (with consent of the receiver) I apply analogue sound effects that might stimulate ASMR. The immaterial aspect of this massage opens for unlimited experiences and manipulations of the bodily perception via the imaginary.&nbsp; Concept &amp; performance: Tyra WiggOn the phone / online&nbsp;Appointment booking on personal request Official presentations: other others 〰 Touch Praxis (US) October 26 2025 YUP Young Urban Performances in Osnabrück March 19+20 2022&nbsp; BONE Performance Art festival in Bern November 26-28 2021 phone massage During the difficulties of receiving massage clients during the pandemic I developed phone massage, inspired by the body/fantasy...