KiT! is a choreographic research-creation project by Lilia Mestre, presented nightly at 19:30 from Monday December 14 to Friday December 18, 2026 at La Chapelle Scรจnes Contemporaines in Montreal.
The work draws on philosopher Timothy Morton's concept of the hyperobject โ massive phenomena distributed across time and space that elude direct human perception โ applying this lens to questions of climate, atmosphere, and collective affect. The performance investigates what it means to attune oneself to what cannot be fully grasped.
Through embodied and somatic practices, KiT! explores speculative relational fictions designed to cultivate attention, imagination, and responsiveness. Choreography is approached as a tool for slowing down perception and thought, opening space for heterogeneous agencies to participate in the compositional process.
The project is informed by Isabelle Stengers's notion of an 'ecology of practices' โ modes of coexistence grounded in reciprocity and complexity rather than domination. Rather than fixing meanings, the work creates situations that elicit attention and presence from performers and audience alike.
KiT! is a collaborative endeavour, bringing together artists and thinkers from somatic practices, dance, electroacoustics, voice, composition, and scenography, each contributing their artistic and critical perspectives to the studio process.