9: Encounters, Meetings, Passages at Grüntaler9 by Yuko Kaseki & Nikhil Chopra 
::::::::: photo by dadaware

Fäcebook Event

Saturday February 14th ::::::::: 19h

MUJOH – Rootless Transience is an encounter of the practices of Yuko Kaseki and Yasumune Morishige. Their presences improvise forms and sounds within the attempt of rootless awareness. It is the first time they are performing at Grüntaler9 together.

::::::::: Yuko Kaseki (Berlin) is Butoh dancer, performer, improviser, choreographer and teacher, based in Berlin. Solo and ensemble performances, improvisations, and collaborative works are performed throughout Europe, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Canada, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Australia and the USA. These works are physical performances that incorporate Butoh, contemporary dance, object design, texts, and soundscapes. Since 2004 she performs and organizes the improvisation series “AMMO-NITE GIG” (Vol.1 – 48 and ongoing) with international performers and musicians.

::::::::: Yasumune Morishige (Tokyo) creates a very unique style of improvisation by cello. His sound inhabits a fertility in the freely yet delicate, that goes beyond any traditional method. Further Morishige combines his cello-playing with vocals and acoustic piano improvsations. His concerts are nutured by national and international musicians and Butoh dancers. In addition to his musical activities, he published „Photographs“ issued by Powershovel Books, which is a photo collection seen as a „silent“ field as if any type of sound is muted from the photos.

Suggested Donätion 5-9 Euro

Lisa Simpson (Agente Costura) during the Month of Performance Art Berlin 2014 
::::::::: Photo by Ilya Noé

Fäcebook Event

February 6th, 2015 ::::::::: 20-22h

Delicious Drümsticks by Ben Brown, Sound Sewing Instrüment by Agente Costura & Velvet Voicing by Marialuisa Capurso ::::::::: this collaborätion will perform for the first time together at Grüntaler9 within the främe of the weekly Fridäy Süpperclüb ::::::::: all are welcome!

::::::::: Marialuisa Capurso

Marialuisa Capurso is a singer, sound artist, composer and performer based in Berlin. Her work is multidisciplinary and focused on the connection between voice, sound, field recordings, body and improvisation. She investigates and explores the realm of acoustic sounds and electronic interfaces as extension of human voice. Art and life, sound and movement, the common line is the improvisation that leads her to research and to create other worlds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACEFIatWJW8

::::::::: Ben Brown

Ben Brown is a musician, composer and teacher. A recent recipient of Canada Arts Council’s Professional Development Grant, Brown is currently on a 5-month trip across Europe to study and collaborate with Musicians and Dancers. In April 2013 he received a Juno Award for Best Instrumental Album of the year with the group, Pugs and Crows.

Brown regularly collaborates with Dancers and Choreographers and has worked with Katie Duck, Justine Chambers, Lee Su-Feh and Kenny Pearl. He is the founder of Music And Movement Mondays (MAMM), a weekly collaborative series between live musicians and dancers.

http://www.benbrownsound.com/

http://benbrownsound.tumblr.com/

https://www.facebook.com/mammimprov

::::::::: Lisa Simpson (Agente Costura)

Lisa Simpson is a sewing agent. She has been playing the Singer, a sewing machine, since 2003. In the daytime she tackles unwanted clothing, pins them down and cuts them up, transforming them into new wearable shapes. By nighttime, the Singer joins her fellow musicians and Lisa sews to the beat of the music, improvising on clothing based on rhythm and sound. The sewing machine is amplified and becomes a musical instrument, and new sculptural garments are created from old clothes.

Lisa has performed extensively on an international level, including at The Vancouver Art Gallery, the Month of Performance Art Berlin, the Bimhuis Amsterdam, Curitiba Fashion Week, among others. In 2014 she was Artist in Residence at Villa Waldberta in Munich, invited by the EU project What’s the Deal.

http://musicalsewing.blogspot.de/p/artist-bio.html

Photo by Teena Lange ::: Esther Neff (Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brroklyn) 
in You Are a Big Boy Now Or Rauschenberg ist Tödlich at Grüntaler9 
for Month of Performance Art Berlin 2013

::::::::: Fäcebook Event

:::::::: Tränsläting Meserole Street will be a close reading, evaluation process, thorough discussion and uncompromising questioning of resistance and resilience ::::::::: in respect to a recently published text by the Brooklyn based Panoply Performance Laboratory titled TRANSITION DOCUMENT AND REPORT OF FIRST HALF OF FINDINGS FROM EXPERIMENTS AT 104 MESEROLE STREET, 2012-2014.

::::::::: this conversätion will be recorded & live streamed

::::::::: the text

::::::::: the readers
Joel Verwimp
Camilla Graff Junior
Frauke Heidenreich
Teena Lange

This event is initiated by the working group Publishing (PUB), members of   APAB e.V.   and presented by   Grüntaler9   and   APAB e.V.

It will be included in ä publication which will be launched at Grüntaler9 on April 22nd, 2015.

Photo by Jasmin Schaitl ::: Artists in photo are Mayumi Arai (standing) and Suchart Wannaset

led by ::::::::: William „Bilwa“ Costa
hosted & witnessed by ::::::::: Teena Lange

Note :::::::: The workshop will be in English with German translation available.

::::::::: Grüntaler9, Grüntaler Str. 9, Wedding, 13577 Berlin
::::::::: each day from 12:00 til 19:00 including Lunch Break
::::::::: 29 Euros (for both days, includes lunch)

Reservation required.
Please register until Mon. Jan. 5th, 2015
Contact: info@gruentaler9.com

Performance as Practice

Performance as Practice is a practice-based workshop, focused on interdisciplinary performance.It is open to artists of all mediums, disciplines, and levels who are interested in a physical practice. Participants will be introduced to various approaches to performance practices, including: concept development, physical and mental preparation, experimentation, collaboration, and execution.

We will introduce our personal approaches and practices such as: various warm up techniques that heighten sensitivity, tasks that strengthen the relationship between each other and the space, and experiments working with objects and materials in performance. We will focus on different aspects, elements, disciplines, modes and/or methods of performance.

The goal of the workshop is to strengthen and/or initiate the development of a new, or existing, personal practice; which is applicable to solo and group situations.

Performance as Practice Workshop began as a semester-long workshop at The University of Applied Arts in Vienna, March – June, 2014.

What to bring :::::::::

– One object to which you feel related (emotionally, aesthetically, nostalgically, or otherwise)
– Comfortable, warm clothes and shoes that are good for running/moving
– Book and pen/pencil for writing and drawing
– A yoga mat or a blanket
– Food / Snacks / Water (we will provide lunch)

About the facilitators :::::::::

William “Bilwa” Costa is an artist who works in the performing, sound, and visual arts contexts. He works internationally, generating research, lab, and performance projects, actively cultivating opportunities for artists to work together on new interdisciplinary experiments.

Teena Lange is Performance Art Curator and Artistic director of Grüntaler9, she will be present during the workshop. The possibility of having a curator within a workshop environment, allows a constant feedback situation and opens up ways of interaction and development.

Workshop participants will have the opportunity to work with Teena, and possibly perform at Grüntaler9, sometime after the workshop.

::::::::: Link to Livestream

To get in touch online:
Email: camilla@giraffgraff.com
Skype: camillagjunior
Facebook: CamillaGraffJunior

I, Camilla Graff Junior, was born at 18:00 on January 2nd 1974 and have in my 40th year engaged in a series of 40 acts. The series has been divided into four subseries: «Ten acts of celebrating», «Ten acts for leaving the past behind», «Ten acts of healing» and «Nine acts for entering the future». The acts have been performed in places that matter in my life together with friends, family and also people who simply happened to be there.

The final act in my fortieth year will take place at Grüntaler9 on January 2nd from 14:00 – 17:59. “What should happen in my 41st year?” All those who have participated in previous acts as well as newcomers are invited to come by the gallery or be present online to share their visions about “What should I leave behind me?”, “What do I need to heal?” and “What should I celebrate?”.

The act will be live streamed and the shared visions will be written in a google doc that will be projected in the gallery.

::::::::: Link to Livestream

At 18:00 the final act will lead to my 41st birthday party, where Joseph Patricio will be the toastmaster and dinner will be cooked by the NowHere Kitchen Berlin.

IN MY 40TH YEAR
14:00 – 17:59 “What should happen in my 41st year?”
Cakes by Lise Poulette, Vanila Netto and Teena Lange

IN MY 41ST YEAR
18:00 Welcome toast with toastmaster Joseph Patricio
19:00 Dinner by the NowHere Kitchen Berlin

UNGEBÜGELT III/III ::::::::: DREAM ON! WAKE UP!

The 9th and finäl däy ::::::::: Saturday 6th December 1-6pm

Fäcebook Event

Brünch ::: Micro-Performances ::: 9 docümented dreams ::: 3rd Video Performance of the series „In Anja’s Garden“ ::: Selected Pieces of the C Collection ::: Red Thread Archive ::: chalklines on the bläckboard in the späce

Grüntaler9 will host a Checkered Brünch between sleepless imäges and portäble micro-performances. Site-specific dreams investigating the diverse neighbourhoods of Humboldthain and Les Halles. Longing mütations and conteminäted spheres appear in form of an Antilopenkusss. Relätional Agreement als unbegreifbare Kuckucksnester requires the Anti-idea of 99% invisible responsibility. How to draw the ephemeral pictogram of Skulls & Trust? Wake up!

Curated by Teena Lange, Camilla Graff Junior and Lan Hungh
In the frame of the Ungebügelt (III/III) 28 November – 06 Dezember 2014 series hosted by Grüntaler 9 – a space towards the performative.

This project is supported by Bezirkskulturfonds 2014 of the Bezirksamt Mitte.

::::::::: Participänts

Dolanbay
Jeffrey Byrd
Anja Ibsch
Stefan Aue
Luisa Greenfield
Marialuisa Capurso & Vanila Netto
Frauke Heidenreich
Barbara Degtiar
Joel Verwimp
Joy Harder

Camilla Graff Junior born 1974 in Denmark is a performance artist, curator and artistic researcher. Since 2007 she lives in Berlin. She studied directing, performance and dance at schools in Bergen, Paris, New York and Copenhagen. She in 2002 founded the Giraff Graff Company and within this frame has developed numerous site-specific projects and crossover collaborations in the field of contemporary theater and performance, presented in Europe, Africa, South America and the United States. She is one of the curators of the Month of Performance Art Berlin and together with Luisa Greenfields runs the „Crossing Contexts: Interventions through artistic research“ study group by the Nordic Summer University.

LAN Hungh was born in Taipei, Taiwan, studied at the University of Art in Taiwan and the National Conservatory in France, and is currently working as an artist and curator in Berlin. He is a mix-media artist who works with performance, video, music and installation, through which he demonstrates a passion for psychology and body works. In the process of research and development of performance art, Hungh often involves himself in an architectural and environmental context, shows a commitment to an erotism and body-politic in his concept. www.lanhungh.tk

Teena Lange is the Artistic Director of Grüntaler9 – a space towards the performative, which is a space in constant transformation, a space to investigate diverse theories and practices towards the performative. She studied Theatre & Performance Studies & Literature in Leipzig, Paris and Berlin. As a Program Coordinator and Research Associate she worked at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her current work includes independent Performance Art Curating for Grüntaler9 Berlin, Month of Performance Art Berlin, Art Bosphorus Istanbul, Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival New York, >performance space< London and several more spaces and festivals.

Fäcebook Event

Every Fridäy from 18-22h Süpperclüb at Grüntaler9 ::::::::: all are welcome!

Jüst come in, häng out, reläx after a büsy week, enjöy some homecooked food & häve a drink ::::::::: it’s as simple as thät.

::::::::: Every Fridäy, the performance späce invites for a süpper get together within a warm, cozy and social ätmosphere. Every Fridäy Grüntaler9 artists, friends, associates or guests will perform cooking & hosting with witnesses :::::::::

Grüntaler9 is a non-profit performance art space ::::::::: food & drinks by donätion only

CAMERA SONORA ::::::::: a durational sound performance installation

Marialuisa Capurso ::: voice, body, objects, machines, field recordings
Adolfo La Volpe ::: laptop, microphones, objects
Morten Poulsen ::: various equipment

Artwork by Maria Teresa De Palma

Fäcebook Event

From November 7th 10am – November 9th 10pm continuously däy & night

::::::::: Special Program on Friday 7th with dinner 6pm – 10pm ::::::::: Sunday 9th finäle

This project gets it’s inspiration from the Japanese aesthetic concept called „Wabi Sabi“ centered around the acceptance of transcience and imperfection. Wabi Sabi is the beauty of things being imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete, an antithesis to the notion of beauty as something perfect, enduring, and monumental. It’s a hidden beauty, an aesthetic of simplicity that reveals itself only when animated through the daily work of living.

Sound will be the channel to go through the known and unknown in the process of the performance. Focusing on the perception of the momentum, experiencing the room of sound, the intimacy towards alterity. An experience of bodies through sound, time and space. An exploration that aims to bend the lines of boundaries.

It’s a durational performance of three days consecutively day and night in the space Grüntaler9.

::::::::: MARIALUISA CAPURSO is a singer, sound artist, composer and performer based in Berlin. Her work is multidisciplinary and focused on the connection between voice, sound, field recordings, body and improvisation. She investigates and explores the realm of acoustic sounds and electronic interfaces as extension of human voice. Art and life, sound and movement, the common line is the improvisation that leads her to research and to create other worlds.

She studied Theater and Dance at „Accademia stabile del musical“, graduated with a bachelor of jazz music at Conservatory „N.Piccini“ in Bari, Puglia, and with a Master of new musical languages and technology at the Conservatory „N.Rota“ in Monopoli, Puglia. She studied with Meredith Monk, Faheem Mazaar, Chiara Guidi, Michela Lucenti, Patricia Bardi, Barry Harris, Zeno Gabaglio, Carlos Zingaro, Dave Moss, Kent Carter, Carl Berger, William Parker, etc. She sang the contemporary solo pieces for voice „Lettura di Braibanti“ with and for Sylano Bussotti. She recorded with the Hocus Pocus Orchestra and William Parker the album „What shall we do“ for Silta Records.

::::::::: ADOLFO LA VOLPE is a Guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, improvisor, composer and sound artist. He scores and improvises music for theatre, cinema, and contemporary dance, and he is the musical director of the contemporary dance festival “Visioni di parte”, and of the dance department of the town theatre in Ruvo di Puglia. He holds a Master’s degree in “jazz music and new musical languages”. He plays and studies various instruments like Oud, Portuguese Guitar, Irish Bouzouki and Turkish Saz.

He performed in Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Russia, China; recorded about thirty-five CDs for international labels and played among others with Eugenio Colombo, Gianni Lenoci, Steve Potts, Stefano Battaglia, Paolo Damiani, Daniele Di Bonaventura, Pino Minafra, William Parker, Karl Berger, Kent Carter. He studied with Mick Goodrick, Joe Diorio, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Barney Kessel, Joelle Leandre, Carlos Zingaro, Jean Derome, Joanne Hetu, Marcus Stockhausen and Gianni Lenoci.

::::::::: MORTEN POULSEN is a drummer/composer/sound artist based in Denmark, since childhood he has consistently been breaking musical style barriers and, due to his cross artistic work, performed internationally with young lions of improvised music from around the world. With his playful and inquisitive approach Morten creates aural collages of both acoustic and electronic character, inspired by travels abroad and the home country, the inner and outer universe, the mind and the body.

Fäcebook Event

::::::::: saturdäy october 18th ::::::::: 6-10pm ongoing ::::::::: Vegan ::::::::: süggested donätion 4-6€

An informal celebrätion of the fresh green wall in the kitchen and what is there: the autumn, our immediate hungers, the art of satisfying these hungers, and newly refurbished meeting places where it is possible for our histories to be spiced up and affected by other’s.

::::::::: about pepe

::::::::: Special Guests

6-8pm ::: Courage ::: a one to one performance ::: hosted by Giraff Graff

Live Music by Ben Zachariah & Oyndrila Sarkar ::: piano & voice ::: ongoing

::::::::: 15th October at 8.30pm

Fäcebook Event

Otherways

Ingo Reulecke – movement
Markus Pesonen – sound

Otherways is a meeting between the movement Ingo Reulecke and the sound of Markus Pesonen. The two disciplines are strongly drawing from their own individual existence but always relating. By indirect relations, detours and game-like quality the duo stretches the rubber band of interconnectedness and explores our attention through communication between the instrument and the body.

::: Ingo Reulecke is dedicated to improvisational work. In many cases this work is in a close exchange with musicians. A fascinating aspect of the work is the possibility to react and create in the moment. The presence and awareness for the power of the moment is an endless research field. Reulecke is mainly performing and working on realtime composition in a couple of different groups like ( grapeshade, BIT, Streugut etc.) and with different artists, musicians, video artists. He is teaching since many years in the inter-university center for dance Berlin, mostly in the master program of choreography.

::: Markus Pesonen is a composer, sound artist and visual artist, creating sound and visual experiences in different contexts, from concerts and exhibitions to sound baths and shared spaces. He composes and creates with several music groups from solo guitar with live electronics to his 11-piece ensemble Markus Pesonen Hendectet and is also working with dance, theatre, performance art, movies and meditation. Markus believes in open wordless communication, making space for everyone to find their own meaning.