ARID CONDITIONS
Venue:
online
→ Sat, 30.10.
15:00
| reservation required → make a reservation |
ARID CONDITIONS have been cultivated and materialized as a site-specific installation of an arid landscape, strewn with plant fossils built of unfired clay, in a shipping container* for the first time in winter 2020. Since then this mutated - imagined, yet botanically believable - nature grows on diverse grounds and decays across different formats. For STATE13 the work manifests as a Multimedia Lecture oscillating between text, video, photography, drawing and sound. This Lecture is an invitation to zoom into the so often deemed as uncanny depths of the landscape and allow for blurred vision and hearing to occur. Its assembled shards and fragments - the intangible memory and the paradise rot** they hold - constitute both a living archive and a breeding ground for future manifestations.
*The shipping container is situated at Strahlenzentrum in Gießen and is part of Patrick Faurot’s „X-Jungle“ that flourished as his final work for the MA program Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies. It was handed over to me this summer to grow an arid landscape that constitutes the base of this work.
**This term is inspired and borrowed from Jenny Hval’s novel „Paradise Rot“
Mara Kirchberg is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of Choreography, Performance, Installation and Sculpture. Her artistic practice and research focus on the body in relation to and in dialog with the non-/living worlds it is entangled in. She is interested in creating multisensory and embodied encounters that suggest alternative modes of perception and more diverse ways of being with our surroundings. She considers this exploration a reflection on ourselves in how we relate to a more-than-human world.
She graduated from the Dance Intensive Program at Tanzfabrik Berlin as well as from the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen, Germany where she is currently enrolled in the MA program Choreography and Performance.
A work by: Mara Kirchberg
Clay Playing with: Luciana Chieregati, Darío Barreto Damas, Aleksandar Georgiev, Elena Light, Anna Lublina, Vanessa Schmitz, Laura Stellacci, Eva Streit
Sounding with: Paula Noack, Laura Stellacci
Filming and Photographing with: Sophia Scherer, Ruth Süpple
Reading and Text Editing with: Ariana Battaglia, Patrick Faurot, Elena Light, Anna Lublina, Laura Stellacci
Notes:
Performance in English
ARID CONDITIONS
Venue:
online
→ Sat, 30.10.
15:00
| reservation required → make a reservation |
ARID CONDITIONS have been cultivated and materialized as a site-specific installation of an arid landscape, strewn with plant fossils built of unfired clay, in a shipping container* for the first time in winter 2020. Since then this mutated - imagined, yet botanically believable - nature grows on diverse grounds and decays across different formats. For STATE13 the work manifests as a Multimedia Lecture oscillating between text, video, photography, drawing and sound. This Lecture is an invitation to zoom into the so often deemed as uncanny depths of the landscape and allow for blurred vision and hearing to occur. Its assembled shards and fragments - the intangible memory and the paradise rot** they hold - constitute both a living archive and a breeding ground for future manifestations.
*The shipping container is situated at Strahlenzentrum in Gießen and is part of Patrick Faurot’s „X-Jungle“ that flourished as his final work for the MA program Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies. It was handed over to me this summer to grow an arid landscape that constitutes the base of this work.
**This term is inspired and borrowed from Jenny Hval’s novel „Paradise Rot“
Mara Kirchberg is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of Choreography, Performance, Installation and Sculpture. Her artistic practice and research focus on the body in relation to and in dialog with the non-/living worlds it is entangled in. She is interested in creating multisensory and embodied encounters that suggest alternative modes of perception and more diverse ways of being with our surroundings. She considers this exploration a reflection on ourselves in how we relate to a more-than-human world.
She graduated from the Dance Intensive Program at Tanzfabrik Berlin as well as from the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen, Germany where she is currently enrolled in the MA program Choreography and Performance.
A work by: Mara Kirchberg
Clay Playing with: Luciana Chieregati, Darío Barreto Damas, Aleksandar Georgiev, Elena Light, Anna Lublina, Vanessa Schmitz, Laura Stellacci, Eva Streit
Sounding with: Paula Noack, Laura Stellacci
Filming and Photographing with: Sophia Scherer, Ruth Süpple
Reading and Text Editing with: Ariana Battaglia, Patrick Faurot, Elena Light, Anna Lublina, Laura Stellacci
Notes:
Performance in English
Danke an alle Förder:innen und Unterstützer:innen
Danke an alle Förder:innen und Unterstützer:innen