Lília Mestre

KiT!
Performance
2026
Keep in Touch! Gardez Contact!
Description
KiT! (Keep in Touch!) is a choregraphic work inspired by Timothy Morton’s concept of the hyperobject: phenomena massively distributed across time and space that exceed direct human perception. This research-creation project seeks to attune itself to what cannot be fully grasped: climate, atmosphere, and collective affect. Through embodied practices, it explores forms of speculative relational fictions that cultivate attention, imagination, and responsiveness.
In this approach, choreography is understood as a practice that slows down perception and thought, making space for heterogeneous agencies to participate in the process of composition. It creates situations of attention rather than fixed meanings, echoing what Isabelle Stengers (2005) calls an “ecology of practices”: modes of coexistence grounded in reciprocity and complexity rather than domination.
KiT! approaches choreography as a relational practice that shapes how we perceive, sense, and cohabit. The project brings together collaborators from different fields—including somatic practices, dance, electroacoustics, voice, composition, and scenography—who contribute to the studio process through their artistic and critical approaches.
Credits
Co-created with/ co-créé avec: Heather Anderson, Rena Adell Eyamie, Esteban Donoso, Diego Gil, Simon Labbe, Evgenia Mikhaylova.
Scenographie/y: Aaron Richmond
Sound/Son and Light/Lumière: Kristian North
Video production: Evgenia Mikhaylova

Supported by/ Avec le soutien: Fonds de Recherche du Quebec; SSHRC explorer; LePARC MILIEUX; Concordia University; Hexagram; La Chapelle Scenes Contemporaines