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16:00—16:45 Show

Tanzhaus Bern

Joseph Baan

Bl0Wn
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Training one’s own incoherence
Deconstruction of legibility
Opacity
Haze

In «BI0Wn», Joseph Baan and Luc Häfliger use ambiguity, illegibility and incoherence as strategies to interrogate, negotiate, and potentially abolish the constraints one is born into. Social and state grammars generally aim to categorise, organise, and quantify individuals in ways that makes them appear on its grid, at which point individuals are forced or coerced to operate by its logics. To appear as illegible, unrecognisable, or incoherent signals a refusal of and potential escape from these grammars and their logics. The work directs the gaze of the audience by choosing what to reveal and what to hide; through light and darkness, sound and noise, forms and textures, as well as performativity and the refusal to perform. Departing from the prism of «training one’s own incoherence» as a methodology, «Bl0Wn» considers how becoming unrecognisable might offer the possibility of liberation from identitarian markers.

Biographies

Joseph Baan is an artist and educator. They obtained their MFA Fine Arts at Goldsmiths University in London (2015), and they are currently an Accomplice at Tanzhaus Zürich. They make performances, installations, texts, group works, collaborative formats, and scores that aim to unpack the problem of relating, shifting roles and readings of power and control in relation to affect and gestures of care. Baan is interested in the complexity of collectivity and in the possibility of establishing a solidarity that does not homogenise, but affirms difference. In 2023, «Bl0Wn» received the Audience Award at the Swiss Performance Art Awards. In 2025, Baan spent three months on a research stipend at the Swiss Institute in New York.

Gotgha (alias Luc Häfliger) is a composer, performer and sound artist. After completing a bachelor’s degree in sound arts at the Berne Academy of the Arts (HKB), Gotgha gathered initial experiences in the performing arts and now collaborates and performs regularly with Joseph Baan. Through the lens of noise, Gotgha examines sonic and performative states in which the boundaries between control and ecstasy turn fluid. Gotgha’s works have been presented in a national and international context, including at les Urbaines, the Drifts Festival in Helsinki, the Kunsthalle in Zurich, and ZKM Frankfurt.

Accessibility

The spaces at Tanzhaus can be reached from Dalmaziquai via the staircase in the bridge pier. For visitors with reduced mobility the Tanzhaus is accessible via a floor-level lifting platform and a lift. A member of staff is present to operate the lifting platform and lift. No registration is required, but there may be short waiting times if there is high demand for the wheelchair accessible entrance.

For access outside performance times, there is a telephone number where you can request assistance.

An accessible toilet is available.

Sensory Warnings

- heavy smoke/haze
- loud noise

Sprache

English

Other productions available for touring

Out of Joint (2026), 3 performers

Contact Tournée: tbd

Credits

Choreographer Joseph Baan, in collaboration with Luc Häfliger

Production Philip Finsterbusch

Technics Hannah dal Cero

Concept, direction, choreography Joseph Baan

Performance Joseph Baan, Luc Häfliger

Sound design & composition Luc Häfliger

Dramaturgical support Joshua Wicke

Coproduction Tanzhaus Zürich

Venue

Tanzhaus Bern
Dalmaziquai 69, 3005 Bern
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Tickets

12.2.2026, 21:00—21:45
Tanzhaus Bern
13.2.2026, 13:30—14:15
Tanzhaus Bern
14.2.2026, 16:00—16:45
Tanzhaus Bern