Foyer

Exhibit and sculptural performance


NINA KATHARINA GLOCKNER (Bochum)


HUMANOMAT, Length:10 mins.


Both the performance and ›video sculpture‹ which make up Humanomat illustrate automatism which is often apparent in human actions and question the status of the so-called ›free individual‹ within a normative system.


Nina Katharina Glockner was born in 1982 in Bochum. She began a Philosophy course at the Humboldt University but transferred in 2003 to the Academy Minerva in Groningen to study Sculpture and Media Art (graduated 2007). She has taken part in various group exhibitions including the Media Art Friesland in Leeuwarden and the International Student Forum European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück.
In collaboration with Nina Wijnmaalen, she initiated the performances ›Öde‹ (2004) and ›Dwangbuis‹ (2005). In 2007 she worked in association with the artist Ulrike Möntmann on the project ›This baby doll will be a junkie‹. Nina Katharina Glockner is a member of the Künstlerhaus Dortmund.



O.T. [beschleuniger], 2007


Length: 01'51


In slow motion a camera follows a fireman on the way to a fire. But instead of extinguishing the fire, he re-inflames it with a fluid.



O.T. [feger], 2007


Length: 04'48


From a raised camera perspective, two men can be seen moving into the picture frame. Following an invisible choreography, they move independently from time and space.



O.T. [kaskade], 2007


Length: 00'51


An unidentifiable object is exposed to a cascade of lightening. The sound track suggests gun shots and fireworks. The picture appears to disintegrate.

The above sequences are extracts from the work series: ›das lässt sich nicht mehr malen, das lässt sich nur noch filmen‹, 2007.

Main Stage

Performance


SARAH BAHR / TERESA MARENZI (Gießen)


MENUETT, Length: 10 mins.


Two women sit on stage amidst a web of papers, sculptures and rules.  Virtually motionless, they deliver short texts revealing a web of intrigues; a power struggle centering on love and revenge. In his epistolary novel written in the 18th Century shortly before the French Revolution, Choderlos Delaclos described a world paralysed by ceremony where ghastly fantasies of revenge laid in wait beneath a veneer of boredom.


Sarah Bahr, born in 1986, studied at the Giessen Institute of Applied Theatre Studies. She has taken part in various sound, video, painting, acting and performance projects. Her installation ›Je t’embrassais tu m’embrassais je m’embrassais tu t’embrassais sans bien savoir qui nous étions‹  was presented at the Festival ›Les Intranquilles‹ in Lyon.


Teresa Marenzi was born in 1979 in Vienna and studied German Philology and Theatre in Vienna, Berlin and Bologna. She has worked as an assistant in radio and theatre and also on various short films as camerawomen, script writer and director. Teresa Marenzi was a guest student at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen in 2006/2007. Her short film ›lyon coeur qui bat‹ was shown last year at the festival ›Les Intranquilles‹ at the International Creative Research Laboratory, Les Subsistances in Lyon.



Performance


COLETTE SADLER (Berlin/Glasgow)


THE MAKING OF DOUBT, Length: 10 mins.


Colette Sadler explores the realm between what is real and what is simulation. What happens when we mimic the movements of objects, which are designed to mimic us? How much wealth of detail does it take to get an audience to accept the fake as true?
›The Making of Doubt places the human beside a copy of itself. Dolls have historically played a central role in how we construct notions of human identity and in this work are a starting point in considering how we integrate the notion of this ‘impossible spectral body’ as an alien presence within society.‹
Colette Sadler is currently working in residence at PACT Zollverein.


Colette Sadler was born in 1974 in Scotland where she trained in classical ballet before studying at the Laban Centre in London. Following her graduation in 1994, she danced with the Transitions Dance Company and from 1995 as a freelance artist with various choreographers. In 1996 she received a scholarship from the British Council to study in New York and Canada with Peter Boneham. In 2007 she won a two year scholarship from the Scottish Arts Council. She created her first choreography Miniatur in 1997. Other works include Body Document (2002), Corps/responding (2004), Reasons to Go On (2004) und DdumY (2005). Her current project The Making of Doubt  will premiere in May at Tramway in Glasgow.



Dance


MAYA LIPSKER (Berlin)


BRUNO, Length: 15 mins.


Two different women trying to share a kind of alternative reality. Both are exposed to the same influences. Out of a repeatedly similar situation, they begin to discover unexpressed feelings of longing. They enter on a journey in search of a common bond whereby they begin to sense a loss of control and dependence. Their obsessions and weaknesses fuel a powerful dialogue through which they seek to free themselves.


Maya Lipsker danced from 2000 to 2003 with the Batsheva Dance Company. During this time she also choreographed her own works and taught the company. Since 2003 she works as an independent dancer, choreographer and teacher in Israel and Europe (including in Berlin on the Sasha Waltz Dance Company research project). Her work has been shown in Berlin in the Lucky Trimmer Performance Series, in Feld 4 at DOCK 11, at the Labor-Gras Studio, in 11DOCK11 and at the Garbaty Fabrik. In 2007 Maya Lipsker choreographed ›Meme‹, the first part of a double bill evening for pvc tanz at the Theater Freiburg.

Small Stage

Film


MARTIN VARGA (Dortmund)


L’EAU DE VIE


Stillstand.


An impulse brings a man out of his stupor. He has a goal in mind but it proves difficult to achieve. Setbacks determine his path. The course of events takes him into another world.


Martin Varga was born in 1978 in Ulm a.d. Donau and studied Design at the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund and at the Moholy Nagy University of Applied Arts in Budapest. He won the Focus Award 2005 for his video installation ›Wer und wie?‹. Martin Varga is a member of Künstlerhaus Dortmund. Since 2006 he has increasedly focused on film work. His film “L’eau de Vie“ is his final year degree project. 

Elevator

Performance


JANA UNMÜSSIG (Salzburg)


FRAGEN SETZEN/STELLEN/LEGEN


The project Fragen setzen/stellen/legen began two years ago and will end in July 2008: Since July 2007, Jana Unmüßig has noted down 50 questions each week. These are questions arising from her artistic studies and dance training, questions about the dance community as well as already formulated questions heard on the street or taken from newspapers, books etc.


Jana Unmüßig was born in 1980 in Freiburg/Breisgau. He trained at SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) and has taken workshops with artists including Philipp Gehmacher, Rosemary Butcher, Xavier Le Roy and Mette Ingvartsen. Jana Unmüßig has initiated numerous projects and works including most recently ›This is a chewing gum or: Is there still milk in the fridge?‹ at Republic in Salzburg. In July/August 2008, she will work as an Artist in Residence at Movement Research in New York and in September will hold a Research Residency at the Théâtre Tangente/Lynda Gaudreau in Montreal.

Studio 1

radio play


LUISE VOIGT (Gießen)


HORDEN


Concept and direction: Luise Voigt


Same named narrative: Björn Deigner


Length: 60 mins.


What determines me, what do I determine. Incompatibilities between inner and outer worlds, perceptions and suppositions, are the main aspects of my work. In the first instance, my radio play appears to be a narrative but the relationship of voice to sound is soon undercut. A breach of the rules of perception of what happens around me and what happens in me. What will be louder, you or me. Do you hear that or do you hear me.


Luise Voigt, born in 1985 in Nordhausen/Thüringen, gained her first theatre experience acting small roles in productions by, amongst others, Armin Petras at the Theater Nordhausen and Staatstheater Kassel while still at senior school. In 2004 she began studying at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen. Luise Voigt’s own works include the radio drama ›Weltall-Erde-Mensch‹, for which she won the first Weimar Radio Drama Prize in 2005 and the video installation ›Eines Tages nicht mehr‹ at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies.

Kachelfoyer + Foyer

3 Video-Installations


PATRICK PRESCH (Essen)


Patrick Presch was born in 1980 and studied Communications Design and Photography at the University Duisburg-Essen and at the Hungarian University of Crafts and Design, Budapest (Graduated 2007). He has shown work in various international exhibitions including in Dusseldorf, Oslo (2007: ›Urban Terrain: Perspectives on Landscapes‹) and Milan (2007: EPSON Art Photo Award 2006). In 2006 Patrick Presch won the EPSON Art Photo Award in the categories Best Class & Best Selected Work. Extracts from his work ›das lässt sich nicht mehr malen, das lässt sich nur noch filmen‹ (photo and monitor presentations) can currently be seen at the  Gallery Mikro in Dusseldorf.

Kachelfoyer

KARAWANE


Sound: vonzeitzuzeit, yoshino, 2007


From a sky view camera position a group of people are seen passing through an open space and interacting on different levels with one another. The sound track sets a rhythm; the passing of time carries over in the filmic action.