Mads Floor Andersen – Bound [Earthbound Series]

Mads Floor Andersen’s performance Bound links such themes as the consequences of change on a private and an ecological level. It’s a personal story about how we deal with the impact of conflicts, catastrophes, and decisions, describing the feeling of being paralysed and liberated, tied to contexts, relationships, and historic decisions or to unexplored landscapes still ahead of us.

The Danish performer tells an ecological story about climate change and the uncertainty inherent to future life on our planet. What should be done? What have we done? How do we cope with the consequences we have caused ourselves? ‘Stay with the trouble’, American scholar Donna Haraway suggests. But how can we do that and live regretting a past that cannot be undone? How can we exist in uncertainty about a future ahead of us? Where do we place our own history within the history and ecology of the universe? What is our relationship to the Big Bang and how everything came into existence? How do our choices, our lives, and our death float through space? Do they hover around over the Earth or drift in space like Major Tom?

Bound attempts to interweave the big issues of life with a very private story to create a cosmic narrative about how decisions and the history of relationships will affect both our personal environment and the overall ecology.