Kollektiv International Totem (KIT)

Biography

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KIT is a Zurich based _________made up of varied constellations composed of performers, poets, programmers, improvisers, architects, soundtrackers and _______ who mutualise what they don’t know, playing together with everything around them, making their environment striking. Their games consist in tracking, recording, interpreting and re-enchanting the links between them and those who cannot be seen, what cannot be heard, transcribed by acoustic, electronic and self-made instruments. They summon the other living beings from this planet earth : ______ non-human, reality or myth,organic and inorganic bodies, placing them on stage. Their aesthetic explores the tension between programmable material and the potential for its failure.

All their works are presented as a kit : individual and collective patterns, colonized capitalism frames, written scores, improvisation, __________ assembled into “ scenic devices”, which ___, catch, translate what is alive, in between all these layers, amongst performers and audience. Their practice enlarges and shares, piece after piece, their taste for ______, joy and acceptance of what is now and present.

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Kollektiv : To connect the unresolved, the non-individual shared between several individuals would be the condition for a collective. It is in a way the awareness of this shared incompleteness - necessary for a healthy lifestyle, which seeks to resolve vital tensions by entering into relationship with other living beings.

Interиatioиal : we are cosmopolitan and (try) eating local. The и is the difference between the urkrainain alphabet and the russian one.

Totem : A totem is a community of living bodies who are interrelated. Totemism is a way of life that recognizes the alterity of the others : we play together even if we don't have the same family, blood, culture, we don’t have the color of skin, we are not from the same species, we don’t speak the same language.