The desire to contain and the inevitability of rupture #3

by Johanna Gilje

May 26, 12-9pm
May 27, 12-9pm
May 28, 12-9pm
Everyone is welcome to witness at any time.

Moving backwards and forwards simultaneously. Constellating landmarks. Describing territories. Discerning vectors which reflect futures or predict pasts.

This 3 day performance is a series of collaboration duets with artists who are integral to the social fabric of grüntaler9 – a space towards the performative in Wedding, Berlin. The project is entering its 3rd phase which uses artistic methods developed through conversation as navigational instruments that we don’t (yet) know how to use.

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surface(ing) – posture(ing) ::::::::: with Martín Lanz Landázuri and William „Bilwa“ Costa

Wednesday 24 May from 12-6 pm (all are welcome at any time)

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surface(ing) – posture(ing) is a movement research session/workshop based on two scores/techniques for finding postures and developing these postures into movement. surface(ing) draws from the space itself, finding and embodying postures inspired by the architectural elements of Grüntaler9 and perhaps its surroundings.

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C Collection Untitled by Camilla Graff Junior

Tuesday 23 May 12-9pm (all are welcome at any time)

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Camilla Graff Junior started her C Collection in the middle of the eighties. It today counts over eight hundred pieces of clothing that she has worn at some point in her life. During her nine hour intervention in grüntaler9 Camilla will work on the archiving of her collection, which entails passing on a series of pieces to new bodies. All are welcome at any time.

Camilla Graff Junior is performance artist, curator and artistic researcher. With her Giraff Graff company she makes both solo and collaborative works.

ieke Trinks, Performance Monologues, in exhibition Het Bos en de Zalen, 
organized by Frans van Lent_Dordrecht the Netherlands, 2017, photo by Koos Siep

Performance Monologues – an oral encyclopedia on performance art
by ieke Trinks

Fridäy May 19

6-7pm (on time and by donation)

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Performance Monologues is an ongoing collection of audio recordings and live recitations that started in 2016. Trinks visits artists and asks them to describe one of their performances from memory while she records them. The recordings help her to recite the monologues from memory before a live audience. This is often done during an art event, but also in more intimate situations with one or more listeners. Trinks recites the monologues in the first person because they are in the first person when delivered to her.

Trinks started to collect the monologues for a number of reasons. First, she had the experiences of failing to describe her own performances to others in a satisfactory way. Second, she wanted to get to know the performance works of others by hearing about their experience of doing the work. Third, the question of documentation interests her. Fourth, the monologues are a way to explore the relationship between the mediating and mediated subject. And fifth, is the way in which a monologue actualizes a performance by means of memory that appeals to her.

Trinks is going to recite the Performance Monologues based on the recordings:

#17 Confrontation by Odun Orimolade
#34 Age (skin-color) by Anja Ibsch
#29 (T)here by Hiroko Tsuchimoto
#5 In the Absence of a Body by Diaz & Lewis

Program will take about an hour.

ieke Trinks is a visual artist based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Malmö, Sweden. Her performance art is presented in several countries in Europe, South America, Canada and the USA. She’s part of the performance collective TRICKSTER and organizes PAE (Performance Art Event) in the Netherlands with artist Nina Boas.

Matters of Act ::::::::: ACT 2: After-The-Fact Rehearsal

Friday March 31 from 7:30pm

Süpperclüb after 9pm

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New York based publisher ALREADY NOT YET, run by members of NO COLLECTIVE, is organizing four book release “Acts” in Berlin and Cyprus to launch the publication of their new journal MATTERS OF ACT, and a new philosophical question-and-answer-and-drawing book ARE WE HERE YET? written by a four-and-a-half-year old.

The second Act on March 31 will be an “After-the-Fact Rehearsal” of the first Act—a panel discussion about MATTERS OF ACT—at the same venue and with the same members which aims to achieve through contrivance and pretense what the first Act realized so naturally.

Conversation will again focus on the problems of “act” (both in the sense of action and pretense) and “future” (the featured topic of the journal’s next issue), but will also incorporate comments, suggestions, questions, and instructions revolving and resolving around the resemblance (or not) of the present Act to the now-absent one. Participants of the first Act who cannot make it to the second Act will be replaced by effigies (stuffed animals or lego figures), and treated as if they are there.

Panelists will include Johanna Gilje, Teena Lange, Joël Verwimp, Natália da Silva Perez, Lindsey Drury & You Nakai, and the evening will be moderated by two Already Not Yet authors: a very impatient six-year-old Aevi (“Are We Here Yet?”), and a very patient sexagenarian Roland Albrecht (“Museum of Unheard (of) Things”).

::::::::: Other Acts in the same series:

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Isabel Leon                   Photo: Ana Matey

Here & Now ::::::::: by Isabel Leon, Anja Ibsch & Jörn J. Burmester

A performance collaboration & Winter Süpperclüb
::::::::: the last one at grüntaler9 within the year 2016

Friday December 9, 2016
From 19h ::::::::: Performance by Isabel Leon, Anja Ibsch & Jörn J. Burmester
From 20h ::::::::: Winter Süpperclüb with spacemade & heartwarming dishes by donation & Glühwein & Bier

It is a collaboration based on the immediacy; the space and present circumstances; a project that focuses on the wide range of stimuli that life offers us to create both visually and conceptually. It is inspired by everyday life, the seemingly insignificant that becomes extraordinary. The bodies, the presence… here and now.

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pETERPurg photo by Klemen Razinger

eastweetswest by pETERPurg ::::::::: a performance process reflecting the state of unity

October 3, 2016
Live Performance 12 – 14h at grüntaler9
Tweets and responses to them are always welcome ::::::::: https://twitter.com/Gruentaler9

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Germän Ünification Däy
The Twitter account of grüntaler9 invites everyone to tweet/comment upon the topic of East & West. The performer arranges selected feeds, printed out on paper and cut to tile size onto the Black & White floor tiles of the space.

Performative (re)actions will emerge by performer and participants, online and on site, critical or speculative, mythical or manipulative. Live feeds are used primarily, recycling material is an option. Text is used primarily, pictures are an option.

After more than a quarter century, share your thoughts reflecting the state of unity.

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