Last week, in Dortmund, it was possible to see the performance Everything but Solo by the feminist artists' collective Swoosh Lieu again. They were invited to show their piece, which was developed in 2012, as an opener for this year’s edition of Favoriten Festival, or, FAV 20, in shorthand. (The festival is still on, and … Continue reading Swoosh Lieu: Everything but Solo
One of the last shows that had its opening night in Frankfurt's (and Darmstadt's, and Offenbach's) Implantieren festival of 2020 was zaungäste's Trip of a Lifetime. zaungäste is the label held by Susanne Zaun and Marion Schneider, and translated, Zaungäste stands for uninvited guests (Gäste) watching what's happening from behind a fence (Zaun). Put like … Continue reading zaungäste: Trip of a Lifetime
If I say that, as reader of Kharms, as a scholar of Kharms, and as an audience of performances of Kharms’s works, I experience the struggle with the very notion of absurdity on many levels, I can also add this: I perceive this struggle with absurdity within the works that I are developed from his writing. So … Continue reading Daniil Kharms and the Struggle with Absurdity (2/2)
For Implantieren festival, the theater collective ScriptedReality had invited into saasfee*pavillon, an exhibition and event space in the center of Frankfurt. The large glass walls of the building open the view upon a small park that is connected to the green belt following the former city walls. Being in the building and looking outside, it … Continue reading ScriptedReality: Die Stadt mit der Zunge betreten
Every two years – biennially, as the curators say – there’s a summer performance festival that takes place in Frankfurt on the Main, and it's called Implantieren. Implantieren, German for "to implant", has been invented by Frankfurt’s independent dance and performance creators, and is made possible notably by ID_Frankfurt e.V. (InDependent Dance and Performance). The … Continue reading Philip Albus & Ana Berkenhoff: Space Machine No. 1
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