‘surbending’ is the collaborative performance project between choreographer Andreas haglund and electronic music composer and programmer August Norborg/FASCIA. surbending explores how surrendering can contain strategies of subversion and survival for queer individuals. This is done through the lens of their shared experience as queer people navigating institutions of healthcare. A situation where the fate of individual queer lives is robbed of self-determination.

Through developing and exploring tools for motion tracking with webcams, the two artists re-produces artificial scenarios for a black box where this upheaval of self-determination is at stake. Through advanced aural technologies, intricate choreographic methods and work with text this affect is reproduced and experimented with.

Choreography, dance, performance and text: Andreas Haglund

Music composition and software programming: August Norborg (FASCIA)

December 2024: PREMIERE at Inkonst, Malmö

November 2023: YC Festival facilitated by HAUT, curated by Vala T. Fontyn & Jari Malta, Teaterøen, Copenhagen.

The worksharing presented at YC Festival was generously written about by Filip Vest for bastard.blog.

March 2023: Early-stage version at Kollision residency showing curated by Inkonst and Page28, Inkonst, Malmö.

August and Andreas met through an artistic blind date. In march 2023 they had both applied for the open call ‘Kollision’ that Page28 and Inkonst curated together. The call was looking for queer musicians and queer poets to be paired together by the institution.

After a successful one-week residency at Inkonst, Andreas and August decided to further collaborate. Developing both an artistic affinity and a friendship along the way.