THEATRE OF THE SENSORIAL

Understanding knowledge through sensorial and experiential means, and through other than rational consciousness states.

Body Manipulation Research
(Body as a Landscape)

*Body Manipulation Research is a practice which uses ephemeral materials, and action based scores to engage with a passive body. The research works with an active actor and a passive actor. Roles can be flexible and adapt to various levels of activity or passivity. The active actor works on a passive body in order to bring them more into their energy level, or to distract them away from it, in a way that is helpful to them. The active and the passive actor work together to move into altered states of consciousness (ASCs). In these scores, the body is treated in a non-hierarchical manner. Hands and stomachs are not different than genitals, however care is placed in the treatment of all tissues. The scores fluctuate between bringing attention to the superficial, skin level, and to the organ level. Drawing and manipulating as if to map out the organs can provide cartographies of the interior of the body. Drawing and molding the visible and the invisible: the veins, blood, nerves, bones, skin, organs, scars, birth marks, freckles, tattoos, pores, pimples, facia, ligaments, articulations, memories, and the chakras, are taken into account.

WATER INTO WINE III

Long-durational, sensory, action-based performance

CLICK HERE: WATER INTO WINE III (TRAILER)

CLICK HERE: WATER INTO WINE III (12 MINUTES)

Water into Wine III is a ritual of Death, Chaos, and Purification.

Through ritualistic repetition, passive actors transmute into alternate states of consciousness(ASC), via sensory bodily overload, through their interaction with matter: charcoal,wine and seawater. The participants pass from bathtub one to three, filled with these, or other materials, and undergo a transformation both collective and personal. Drawing on various Pagan, Buddhist, and Catholic ceremonies and focusing on states of bardo and trance induction, the work is realized through the transfiguration of tangible materials in incorporeal forms.

Body manipulation scores are long-durational and aim to test and transcend the psycho-physical limits of the subject by means of sensory-overload, voluntary-stillness, and
passivity. During the performance the passive actor completely forfeits themself to the care of the group, as to arrive at a different and sensible mind-space. Active actors may reach ASC through strenuous forced physical exhaustion. This has a secondary effect, the creation of a strong group cohesion through the shared symbolical experience, similar to
those observed in anthropological studies in archaic societies. Observing this group dynamic helped establish principles of the Sensorium practice, which
specifically explores group-structures and rituals as ways to reshape our collective realities and behaviors. Water into Wine III’s practice is based on body manipulation scores,
drawings, smell, and color charts, as well as indepth written and recorded testimonials from participants (actors), which includes their own works and additions to the creative
process. The expanded and elaborated version of the work in 2025 will unfold in a non-hierarchical manner with actors making decisions about their own course during the
performance.

The exposition of Water into Wine III is complete with a dinner, and an exhibition ongoing for several months,
of the research of Sensorium members in dialogue with Water into Wine III. These dialogues inherently encompass the experience of olfactory, auditiory, and gustatory
stimuli, to enhance and dilinate from the visual experience.

SENSORIUM (CH)
text by: Madeline Marone and L. Meïko Touraille

Credits:

A work by Madeline Marone, conceived with:

Actors:
Alina Trionow
L. Meïko Touraille
Ainara López
Marco Galletti
Elisabeth Tretzmüller

Johannes Jakob Rass
Gabriel Shields Hanau

Video Editing by Madeline Marone.
Filming by Alex Mur at Ginevra Film.

Singing (live) by: Ainara López
Sound Experience by Theatrum Phonosophicum
Prelude-Installation “The Glass Bead Game.”

Performed in June and July 2023 in Geneva.
Madeline Marone ©2024

Testimonials from actors (written)

Gabriel (in black), L. Meïko, Marco