tender orbits (live)
2025
Hangar Space, London
Performance
A movement piece of repetitive orbiting of objects around the body on discarded sunloungers, accompanied by a low tremble of an orbiting bass sound mixed from the take-off audio of the Discovery rocket. Labour, awkwardness, erotics and sweaty object care. The duration and number of performers varies.
tender orbits is an ongoing series of installations and performances that probe on our lacking relationality to space debris. Despite having enabled communication, monetary transactions, warfare, weather tracking and space exploration, orbital debris remains detached from our visual, material and sensuous understandings.
tender orbits (live)
Duration: variable, this iteration 12 minutes
Concept, direction, objects and costumes: Minna Pöllänen
Performers: Elise Tyson, Sohaila Baluch, Daniel Durnin and Minna Pöllänen
Sound design: Luna Tebbs
Photographs: Chris Lee
Video documentation by Anju Kasturiraj and Emma Finn
The work is part of an ongoing PhD research at the Royal College of Art supported by Kone Foundation.
