Ivana Müller creates works that are simultaneously poetic and scientific, philosophical and humorous, intimate and political. Her recent productions explore forms of self-invention and storytelling, frequently working on the boundary between fiction and reality.
While We Were Holding it Together negotiates the relationships between the imaginary and the physical, the personal and the collective, the position of the audience and that of the performer. Its images are in a process of becoming, always changing, depending on who is looking: is it a rock band on tour? a picnic in the forest? a hotel room in Bangkok? We look, imagine and reinvent, while searching for what is hidden and what we would like to see. Continuously provoking shifts in perception and sense, While We where Holding It Together stages the conflict between the body and its representation. A disturbing, moving and genuinely funny experience.