In collaboration with 7 dancers, 10 musicians of the music ensemble Klangforum Wien and conductor Bas Wiegers, Linehan and Prins create a “third space” that cannot easily be categorized according to conventional binaries. This space is not entirely “real” and not entirely “virtual”, but instead it occupies a territory in between the two. Blurring the distinction between music and dance, they consider bodies, spatial configurations and gestures of the conductor and musicians as part of the choreography, and the sounds made by dancers' movements as part of the musical composition. Structured like a loop that happens twice, Third Space plays with the perspectives and perceptions of the audience. In each iteration, the audience will be privy to an entirely different set of information through the mediation of broadcasted video, audio, and live performance. Issues of the power of the mediated image arise. Who or what is in control? Who or what is driving the performance?
(Munich Biennale 2018)