LIQUID LOGIC (DE) 2025-2026
LIQUID LOGIC is an interdisciplinary collective of artists that moves between dance, sound, ritual, and futuristic cuteness. They work with open bodies, clear impulses, and monstrous frequencies. Inspired by eco-queer, post-activist, and decolonial theory, they co-create with the “more-than-human world.” Spontaneous composition, butoh, voice, sound, modern magic, rituals, and club energy shape their research. The collective combines physical theater, contemporary dance, and situational sound design, and abandon classical forms in order to dream collectively with body and sound. They understand performative art as a practice of resistance: a political spaceship that breaks down patriarchal, colonial, and normative structures. Their work is medicine for hopeless hipsters, queer alien hearts, and anyone who longs for connection in a chaotic world. It is cute. But weird. But cute.
Parcitipating artists
Patrice Robert Lipeb (DE)
Patrice Robert Lipeb (he/him /or no pronouns) is a multi-instrumentalist and performer. He explores the intersection of body and sound, investigating the textures of atmospheric spontaneous composition. This forms the basis for variations of aleatoric and generative music. Patrice is self-taught and works as a freelance musician and performer in Leipzig.
Aisha Konaté (DE)
“My work is a research for technologies of pleasure, to walk through joy and pain with love and attitude“
Aïsha Konaté (she/they) is a queer, mixed-race performance artist, pleasure activist, and facilitator for physical theater, dance, butoh, voice, and sensual and pleasure-related somatic practice. Aïsha lives in Leipzig, where she creates performances, workshops, retreats, rituals, and places of rest throughout Germany, primarily with and for marginalized people. Aïsha is passionate about body knowledge, ancestry, grounded spirituality, rituals, science fiction, and the mind-blowing potential of collective intelligence in flow. Most recently, she co-directed and performed in the international production Cracks in Time and the Appearance of New Goddesses (2024, Loft – Das Theater). Other projects: Elfenbein (2022), Holobiontinnen (2023), TIEFEN.ausatmen (2023)
Senja Katharina Brütting (DE)
Senja Katharina Brütting (no pronouns) is a queer, mixed-race cutiepie performer who combines spoken word, contemporary dance, and physical theater. With a background in choreography, dance education, and performance, Senja creates performative spaces for experience and leads empowerment-workshops throughout Germany for marginalized people, focusing on dance, somatics, and collective healing. Senja is passionate about the body as an archive of subconscious knowledge, embodied ancestry, madness and insanity, pleasure and lust as resistance, and of course LOVE – because isn’t it all about love? Senja was most recently seen as a performer in the international production Cracks in Time and the Appearance of New Goddesses (2024). Previous works: Sometimes, when I actually want to cry, I prefer to be angry instead (2023), My White Mother (2022), A Lost Planet of Belonging (2022), Flying Stories of our Moving Feet (2022).
Taken residency at
HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts
HELLERAU acts as an interdisciplinary and international centre for dance, performance, music, theatre and media arts. It offers spaces for productions, festivals, concerts performances, exhibitions and discourse, cooperates with various regional cultural partners and is firmly connected internationally. An important part of HELLERAU is a residency program, which offers opportunities for artistic research, networks, production and encounters throughout the whole year.
Nau Ivanow
Nau Ivanow is a space of welcome, accompaniment, research and innovation; a haven where companies will find the warmth needed to work unhurriedly and in good conditions. Residencies are the main focus of what we do. Our aim is to provide decent working conditions, always accompanying the artists and providing them with the resources they need. Nau Ivanow’s projects are underpinned by three major working axes: creation, accompaniment and work with the territory. And all of them with one common denominator: internationalization, which permeates each and every one of our projects.
Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts
Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts is a hub and a gathering point in Northern Norway for the professional independent Performing Arts community. The organization is a laboratory for new ideas, artistic research, and an open space where different cultures are cared for. We challenge hegemonic thinking and support cross-sectorial artistic working and thinking. We are staff of 11 curios people, we are placed in Hammerfest, Tromsø and Bodø and we are a space that offers residency, laboratories and producer services.
What is Liquid Logic?
Our work flows between Butoh dance theatre, sound, and performance, always grounded in a queer- feminist and decolonial perspective. We see the collective as a body – breathing, shifting, dissolving boundaries between self and other. “Liquid” describes the way we create: intuitive, embodied, in constant transformation. We listen to what wants to emerge, to the voices of ancestors and the unseen, and we translate them into movement and sound.
Photo credit: Stephan Floss
What led you to join Movies Identities?
We were drawn to the residency because it offers time and space to listen deeply – to our bodies, our dreams, and each other. The focus on identity and collective research resonates with our ongoing exploration ofqueer and ancestral memory. We are always looking for spaces that allow process, not only presentation, where vulnerability and experimentation are valued. Joining this residency feels like an opportunity to expand our dialogue with new contexts, to root our work in local histories, and to learn from other artists who also move through fluid identities.
Photo credit: Stephan Floss
What is the project you are working on?
Our current research, “Oh deathmother oh! Rituals for the unseen”, begins with dreams and turns them into rituals of remembrance. Inspired by Wanda Coleman’s poem “Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead?”, we explore what it means to live with rage, grief, and tenderness as queer, Black, and mixed-race artists. Through Butoh, sound, and collective dreaming, we investigate how the unseen – ancestors, silenced histories, and suppressed emotions – can find form. The work is not only performance, but a process of transformation and listening: to what was hidden, to what still needs to be said.
Photo credit: Stephan Floss
What motivates you?
We are driven by the need to give space to what is often unheard. Our motivation comes from shared pain, but also from deep joy and connection – from the possibility of turning anger into movement and silenceinto song. As artists, we carry many stories inside our bodies, and we feel responsible to bring them into the world. We are motivated by each other, by our communities, and by the idea that art can be a ritual of care – a place where healing and resistance can coexist.
Photo credit: Stephan Floss
What change would you like to see?
We wish for more smiling, more softness and support, instead of competition. A world where Black, queer, and feminist perspectives of Color are not “additions,” but foundations of artistic and social life. We hope for more collective structures, more listening, and less hierarchy in how art is made and shared. Change for us means reconnection between the arts, between institutions and free art scenes, and with nature as the firsttrue art form. Through our work, we try to make that reconnection tangible.
Photo credit: Stephan Floss
From their residency at Hellefrau
Photo credit: Stephan Floss
From their residency at Hellefrau
Photo credit: Stephan Floss
![<p><b><span data-contrast="auto">What is Liquid Logic</span></b><b><span data-contrast="auto">?</span></b><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559685":385,"335559738":78,"335559740":360,"335559991":244,"469777462":[385],"469777927":[0],"469777928":[1]}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Our work flows between </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">Butoh</span></i><span data-contrast="auto"> dance theatre, sound, and performance, always grounded in a queer- feminist and decolonial perspective. We see the collective as a body – breathing, shifting, dissolving boundaries between self and other. “Liquid” describes the way we create: intuitive, embodied, in constant transformation. We listen to what wants to emerge, to the voices of ancestors and the unseen, and we translate them into movement and sound.</span></p>
<p>Photo credit: Stephan Floss</p>](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fd2wzqsa72zyyd8.cloudfront.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F08%2F04090950%2FOpenStudio_003_Stephan-Floss-scaled.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![<p><b><span data-contrast="auto">What led you to join Movies Identities?</span></b><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559685":389,"335559740":360,"335559991":248,"469777462":[389],"469777927":[0],"469777928":[1]}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We were drawn to the residency because it offers time and space to listen deeply – to our bodies, our dreams, and each other. The focus on identity and collective research resonates with our ongoing exploration ofqueer and ancestral memory. We are always looking for spaces that allow process, not only presentation, where vulnerability and experimentation are valued. Joining this residency feels like an opportunity to expand our dialogue with new contexts, to root our work in local histories, and to learn from other artists who also move through fluid identities.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559685":141,"335559738":22,"335559740":360}"> </span></p>
<p>Photo credit: Stephan Floss</p>](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fd2wzqsa72zyyd8.cloudfront.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F08%2F04091033%2FOpenStudio_011_Stephan-Floss-scaled.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![<p><b><span data-contrast="auto">What is the project you are working on?</span></b><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559685":389,"335559740":360,"335559991":248,"469777462":[389],"469777927":[0],"469777928":[1]}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Our current research, “Oh deathmother oh! Rituals for the unseen”, begins with dreams and turns them into rituals of remembrance. Inspired by Wanda Coleman’s poem “Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead?”, we explore what it means to live with rage, grief, and tenderness as queer, Black, and mixed-race artists. Through </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">Butoh</span></i><span data-contrast="auto">, sound, and collective dreaming, we investigate how the unseen – ancestors, silenced histories, and suppressed emotions – can find form. The work is not only performance, but a process of transformation and listening: to what was hidden, to what still needs to be said.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559685":141,"335559738":17,"335559740":360}"> </span></p>
<p>Photo credit: Stephan Floss</p>](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fd2wzqsa72zyyd8.cloudfront.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F08%2F04091039%2FOpenStudio_012_Stephan-Floss-scaled.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![<p><b><span data-contrast="auto">What motivates you?</span></b><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559685":389,"335559740":360,"335559991":248,"469777462":[389],"469777927":[0],"469777928":[1]}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We are driven by the need to give space to what is often unheard. Our motivation comes from shared pain, but also from deep joy and connection – from the possibility of turning anger into movement and silenceinto song. As artists, we carry many stories inside our bodies, and we feel responsible to bring them into the world. We are motivated by each other, by our communities, and by the idea that art can be a ritual of care – a place where healing and resistance can coexist.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559685":141,"335559737":79,"335559738":17,"335559740":360}"> </span></p>
<p>Photo credit: Stephan Floss</p>](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fd2wzqsa72zyyd8.cloudfront.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F08%2F04091055%2FOpenStudio_015_Stephan-Floss-scaled.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
![<p><b><span data-contrast="auto">What change would you like to see?</span></b><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559685":389,"335559740":360,"335559991":248,"469777462":[389],"469777927":[0],"469777928":[1]}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We wish for more smiling, more softness and support, instead of competition. A world where Black, queer, and feminist perspectives of Color are not “additions,” but foundations of artistic and social life. We hope for more collective structures, more listening, and less hierarchy in how art is made and shared. Change for us means reconnection between the arts, between institutions and free art scenes, and with nature as the firsttrue art form. Through our work, we try to make that reconnection tangible.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559685":141,"335559738":17,"335559740":360}"> </span></p>
<p>Photo credit: Stephan Floss</p>](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fd2wzqsa72zyyd8.cloudfront.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F08%2F04091124%2FOpenStudio_020_Stephan-Floss-scaled.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
