Thz event Out Of Joint2

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Joseph Baan

Out of Joint

Out of Joint is a new performance by Joseph Baan, in collaboration with Luc Häfliger and bela, set to premiere in April 2026. This sharing offers a glimpse into the work after the first two weeks of rehearsals.

The piece explores the possibility of a non-sovereign social formation. To think of a non-sovereign relation is to think of relating as a practice in which situational clarity is worked out in real time, rather than secured in advance. It is out of joint—resisting resolution in either the social or the political, instead slaking the subject’s fragmentation, contradiction, and disarticulation. The artists will work with noise, extreme vocal techniques, movement scores, and possibly text.

Concept & direction Joseph Baan
Performance Joseph Baan, Luc Häfliger, bela
Sound & Composition Luc Häfliger, bela
Dramaturgy Simone Aughterlony, Felipe Ribeiro
Dramaturgical support Tanzhaus Zürich Simon Froehling
Production Matheus Vo-Ngoc

Joseph Baan

Joseph Baan is an artist and educator. Their practice engages in art, education and collaboration as ways to forge creative survival. They’re interested in the complexity of collectivity and in the possibility of establishing a solidarity that does not homogenise, but affirms difference. They make performances, installations, texts, group works, collaborative formats, and scores that aim to unpack the problem of relating, shifting roles and readings of power and control in relation to affect and reciprocity.
 

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