materiality of surrender is a dance performance set in an evening parking lot, where two dancers move with a live band, real-time visuals and a car. transformed into an organic machine, it holds two tv monitors like internal organs, live cameras capture intimate and unsettling perspectives, inside performers’ mouths, across their skin. moving through the chapters denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, the performance embodies the five stages of grief, merging bodies, live sound, visuals, and machine to grief humanity as we know it and speculate about new materialities of existence in a post-petrochemical more-than-human era.