Biography

Rasmus Jensen is a performance maker based in Tallinn, Estonia. 

He holds a MA in Contemporary Physical Performance Making from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and a BA in Acting from the Norwegian Theatre Academy. 

His practice is occupied with extended notions of sensibility and perception achieved through various speculative body-based practices. His works are looking for ways of giving presence to the realities which lie in the periphery of our sensorial experiences, thus lingering between the fictive and the actual, looking for the small gaps in which we could be in the world otherwise. 

Artistic project

“Burnout” is a body-based practice and a performance exploring notions of energy consumption and waste amidst an ecological crisis. It connects the exhaustion of the land to the exhaustion of the body.

3 dancers exist in a post-anthropocene landscape in which the borders between waste, materials and body perishes into an ever-changing choreography looking for ways of living on a damaged planet. Through an extended eco-somatic practice we are looking towards the periphery of what is sensible to the human body. The practice asks if it is possible to alter the human sensorial organs and re-distribute sensitivity not only within the individual body but also towards our increasingly damaged surroundings and the bigger structures gaining capital and control over these.  

Format: walkabout, performance

Size of audience: 40 people maximum

Specific location: at or in sites of human extraction or remains of heavy industry

Timing / duration: during all parts of the day for 50 min