Andreas Haglund's Pop UP Performance of Feral Fantasies at AST
| Date | 11.15.25 |
| Time | 2pm–3pm |
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| Admission | Free |
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| Associated Program | Unlisted Projects |
CopenhAustin resident artist Andreas Haglund, from Denmark, will perform a portion of their solo choreographic piece, Feral Fantasies, during the Austin Studio Tour at The Museum of Human Achievement. Feral Fantasies explores how queer experience exists in relation to Western cultural conceptions of nature and ecology. Inspired by Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity, the solo explores nature and the natural as performative, meaning as phenomena with the capacity to change. The solos ask: How can the perceived monstrosity of queerness be used as a tool towards a more complex understanding of nature? How can acting out as an animal, as a beast, change the way we relate to our own bodies and each other’s? Who gets, and who doesn’t get, access to ‘the natural’ and why?
This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department, Scan Design Foundation, and Texas Commission on the Arts.
Artist Bio
Andreas Haglund (SE/DK) works as a freelance choreographer, dancer, and performer in and around Stockholm, Copenhagen and Malmö. Their artistic practice centers on explorations of the somatic, material and aesthetic coherences between queer lived experience and cultural conceptions of nature. Through the composition of speculative and sensuous dances, images and soundscapes their choreographic practice creates wild collages where concepts resonate through embodiment. Their work takes place on stage, in dance practice and in critical text. Educated in Dance and Choreography from DNSPA he is now an active member of Dance Cooperative; a platform, dance studio and venue for dance practice and performance organised by 12 professional artists in Copenhagen. Through the organisation he has participated in producing several performance events and workshops, for both local and international artists.
