We want to share selected stages of the journey from encounter to accumulation and transformation: how individual objects alter the dancer’s movement, how carrying an ever-growing collection changes the possibilities of the body, and how the musician simultaneously collects and layers sonic material. The sharing may culminate in an experiment around the emerging creature: whether it is assembled outside the dancer, embodied by the dancer, or exists somewhere between body, objects, and sound. We warmly welcome the audience’s experiences of these different possibilities as part of the ongoing artistic research.

Maggi Asbjørnsen is a Norwegian choreographer, performer and artistic facilitator whose work explores participation, embodied presence and the choreographic potential of human relationships. Working across theatre, immersive performance, site-responsive practice and audience-centered formats, she creates performances that invite people into active encounters with movement, sound, space and one another.

Her artistic practice is rooted in contemporary dance, improvisation and somatic inquiry, and is informed by a sustained interest in how environments, objects and social structures shape human behaviour. Rather than treating audiences as passive observers, her work often positions them as collaborators whose choices, attention and presence influence the performance itself. She is currently interested in developing new models for audience engagement and creating performances that expand people's sense of agency, possibility and embodied awareness.

Petter Asbjørnsen is a composer and double bass player whose work explores the meeting point between structure, improvisation and listening. Working across experimental music, contemporary composition and collaborative performance, he is interested in how rules, systems and constraints can generate unexpected forms of musical expression.