The Carbon Score – Karin Pauer, 2024

In the first phase of her research, choreographer Karin Pauer examines embodied activities associated with the production, extraction, release, and sequestration of CO2. Her work highlights the absurd cycle of environmental damage and subsequent damage control—a pattern that is deeply characteristic of human behavior.

With its dual role as a life-giver within the human body and a harbinger of climate-induced environmental changes, the molecule allows us to trace its journey. From its creation in the body, exhalation, and eventual capture, purification, penetration, and sequestration deep underground, CO2’s transition embodies the intricate movement of molecules both in people and the landscape.

Karin Pauer is a Vienna based performer and choreographer. In 2008 she received her BA in Choreography at the ArtEZ – Institute of Arts in Arnhem/ The Netherlands. She has since collaborated in various international settings with choreographers, theatre directors, filmmakers and visual artists such as Liquid Loft/ Chris Haring, Davis Freeman/ Random Scream, Yun Jung Kim, Mike O’Connor, Maureen Kägi, Aldo Giannotti, Nicola von Leffern and Veronika Franz. Since 2015 she has continuously worked with the Austria based dance company Liquid Loft. She was a recipient of the danceWEB scholarship in 2009 and the TURBO Residency in 2012, both at ImPulsTanz, Vienna.

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