Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown – amazing and iconic figure in the arts, dance and explorer of movement died four days ago. NYT obituary – and just found: a detailed description especially on her early work in The Guardian together with a video of re-enactment of some of these works. And a good explanation for what her work […] Read More
Tomorrow is always too long‘s flat ontology
The future is flat, but we will be singing. All what is left for our visual and haptic sensations is the surface. Don’t tell me you still think 3D and virtual reality has depth. In fact it is as plane as Shadow Theater. The future is a never ending surface presence of channel surfing. Life […] Read More
The mind muscle – feelings are facts juxtaposition
The above line references the two titles the Mind is a Muscle and feelings are facts, which belong to works and theoretical insights of one of the most outstanding artists working in what it means to have, move, and be a body, Yvonne Rainer. In 1968 accompanying her evening length performance the Mind is a […] Read More
Tanz über Gräben – Sacré Sacre du Printemps
The entrance piece to the recent conference ‘Tanz über Gräben’ at the Radialsystem V was for me certainly L. Chétouane’s choreography of ‘Sacré Sacre du Printemps’ and its re-staging at the HAU in this context. It was now shown in the much wider horizon of this really multi-facetted conference, reminding 100 years of the first […] Read More
After Trio A
Andrea Bozic, After Trio A / video link via dance-tech.tv “After Trio A is not a re-staging of Trio A but a dialogue with it.†says the choreographer Andrea Bozic and to emphasize it, she replies to Yvonne Rainer’s famous No-Manifesto: No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe […] Read More
d|b – bright reflection versus dark wave (and vice versa)
‘db’ is the cryptic title of the actual show by the Japanese artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda that by no means can be emphasized as an ‘empty set’. This notion, which is used to express the smallest unit in mathematical philosophy, constitutes as well an attractive field for the artist who is known for his […] Read More
Sweeping the Speech Bubbles
“It takes a long time to become young.” said Picasso. And I think he meant the curious look, the undoing of the known, the ability to comprehend outside the rule and to try instead to open up an inner space that unsettles the framing view. Letting go the preformed seems to be a tough task […] Read More
Spatio-temporal loops for the eye of the beholder
In the ancient Indian gamble of snakes and ladders, both of the mentioned elements are crucial for the structure of the simple board game, but also quite literally play out the back and forth in time and space representing the twists of fate, as Salman Rushdie interprets it aptly in his book Midnight’s Children . […] Read More
Failure as springboard to success
By accident I am just discovering Chris Kraus, film-maker, writer and co-editor of Semiotext(e) as I came across the announcement for Performative Philosophy: The films and writings of Chris Kraus and Semiotext(e) at Monash University Museum of Art. An event I certainly wanted to visit, if it weren’t that far down under. Performative Philosophy: The […] Read More
Can we talk about this?
Currently the Britain located DV8 Physical Theater is on tour with their latest piece ‘Can we talk about this?’. It is a dance piece, which builds heavily on the actual theme of Islamophobia with specific accentuation on the British situation and thus luckily also recruits its dancers from a multicultural background. For me personally this […] Read More
Fred Sandback – spatial wiring
Currently – in the show ‘Raum der Linie‘ in Munich – I came across some works of Fred Sandback and was left stunned by two different facts: one the fragility, though absolute presence of these works and second – how could I have overlooked them for so long. Some works feel oddly familiar, like I […] Read More