Das Duo COGNITIVE OVERLOAD wurde 2019 von Lucas Bassereau und Constance Diard gegründet. Es entstand aus dem gemeinsamen Wunsch heraus, eine Plattform zu schaffen, die der choreografischen Forschung und einer bestimmten Perspektive auf den Tanz gewidmet ist. Die beiden Künstler*innen möchten einen künstlerischen Ansatz entwickeln, der Forschung, Kreation und Vermittlung miteinander verbindet. Eine zentrale Frage ihrer Arbeit ist unter anderem, wie abstrakte Ideen verkörpert werden können und wie ihnen eine materielle und teilbare Realität verleiht werden kann. Ein weiterer zentraler Punkt ihres Ansatzes ist die Beziehung zwischen Kognition und Bewegung. Die beiden experimentieren mit der Überlastung unserer kognitiven Grenzen, um darüber einen Zustand erhöhter Wahrnehmung zu erreichen.  

Who are you? / Short bio

We are Constance Diard and Lucas Bassereau. We both have a career as dancers for different choreographers and we started to work and create together in 2019. Last season in 2023 we created two works: Ambiance, une installation chorégraphique et sonore - a 3 hour dance and sound installation with 5 dancers and 1 musician for La Villa Cavrois. And Big Bang - a dance piece made for the stage in which we both dance, built as a triptych with 2 solos and a duet

What are the main focuses and questions in your work? / Short description

Our work focuses in creating abstract forms and performances and how to make them dialog with other medias as sound, architecture, light etc… Another central point of our approach is the relationship between cognition and movement. We are looking to what extent it is possible to superpose informations of several kinds, to increase our cognitive load: to come close to the limits of "cognitive overload".

What project will you be working on during your residency?

During our residency we will be looking at new ideas for our next projects. It is the very beginning of a new chapter for us, trying to clarify some tools we already work with and understand how to share them with a large audience.

What do you expect from your residency? What are you looking forward to?

We hope to find new ways to articulate ideas and processes we work with since a while. But also to go further with them as movements practices and understand how to share them with the audience, both verbally or physically.

What inspires you?

We both have a strong interest for sciences such as mathematics and physics. In the creation process, we often talk about physical phenomena that fascinate us. We are inspired by the way scientists can describe entities like time, space, movement and we like to play with those ideas to give them a choreographic shape.

Links to Website/Instagram/Facebook/etc.
https://cognitiveoverload.squarespace.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cog.ove/