Layton Lachman has been making live performance, installation, and film work independently and collaboratively since 2010, and their body of work has grown in close dialogue with both Berlin and American contemporary dance contexts. Their research is often in the realm of somatics and finding methods of utilizing these experiential practices in the creation of immersive worlds of sensorial complexity and perceptual disorientation. Lachman has a long-standing artistic collaboration with Mara Poliak. In 2020 the two artists are developing a new performance that is designed to be presented to individuals or small groups of up to four people, who become co-conspirators and collaborators throughout the course of the performance. As well as making and performing, Lachman has been deeply invested in alternative modes of curation and social organizing via the platforms of SALTA (Oakland) and T.E.N.T. (Berlin).
T.E.N.T. is a mobile structure made to host dreams, desires and basic necessities. T.E.N.T. is a collaborative dance/art phenomena developing exxxessive performative work and incoherent methodologies, a way for the participants to bring their individual art making into a collective frame, a togetherness through multiplicity. Since 2017, T.E.N.T. artists have built an artistic relationship and devised various curatorial platforms for research and performance. In addition to presenting five performative events in Berlin, Dresden, and Stockholm, T.E.N.T. initiated a research studio in 2018.
