Performance art at SAVVY Contemporary
18. and 19.Nobember 2011, at 20.30
Performance Transparencie by Lala Nomada and Niña Yhared
“Transparencies” is a project of the Mexican artists Lala Nomada (Gabriela Aldrete) and Niña Yhared, a cooperation work of performance art, in which installations will be produced and transformed during the two chapters of it. This work is the result of an intense communication process through different cities and sometimes continents. The common interest in fluid materials and specific colours will produce a live art piece in which the public won’t be just viewer but also feel part of it, playing an important role in the progress of the evening
SAVVY Contemporary Performance Curators: Cilgia Gadola and Raisa Kröger
Entrance donation: 2- 5 Euros
For more information, please contact:
http://flavors.me/lala_nomada I http://www.yhared.com/
Fotos by Michal Rivlin
14. and 15. October 2011, at 20.30
Performance by Balz Isler
Balz Isler is moving whitin a composition of sound, space and material. The tension between installation and performance creates an artistic work that deals with the current clip- and documentary- culture. Balz Isler collects data from continuous streams useing different media and sources in his work to establish new relationships and new movements. Based on visual and acoustic set pieces Isler forms an impressive synthesis of physical and vocal performance as well as a media collage, drawn from divergent archives. In the exhibition area of SAVVY Contemporary Balz Isler´s insatallative concert will create a situation in which different materials and works come together.
SAVVY Contemporary Performance Curators: Cilgia Gadola and Raisa Kröger
Entrance donation: 2- 5 Euros
For more information, please contact: http://www.balzisler.org/
27th and 28th of May, at 8.30 pm.
"Thinking in past tense": Performance in the course of the exhibtion Here and now... amnesia.
Artists:
Irene Cortina (1989 Valencia, SP) Dancer and Maker: http://irenecortina.wordpress.com/
Dino Spiri (1982 Singen, D) studied drums in the netherlands. He creates music for dance performances.
Gesa Piper (1984 Neumünster, D) Dancer and Maker
Olaf Hollmann (born in 1985) is a young European tenor-saxophon-player and composer, experienced in many styles of music.
Concept: "Felt memory of time through body"
Memory plays a very important role in the time and society we are living in. Is there a necessary connection between memory and time? What exactly could this connection be? Through our body we experience time and it is our body that 'stores' memories. Every cell of the body holds a record of time that has passed. The constant movement of death and birth within our cells creates the map of textures, scars and colors that we call our bodies. This is a performance to play with these questions. Through dance and live music we express our thoughts by exploring two main concepts: the connection or disconnection between memory and time and the expression of memory through our body.
This performance offers a possibility to experience this theme and share different people's pasts. A space in the present where the past is just around the corner, a place where memory and perception meet in a timeless atmosphere.
Concept creation and direction: Irene Cortina González, in collaboration with Dino Spiri.
Performance
Music: Dino Spiri & Olaf Hollmann
Dance: Gesa Piper & Irene Cortina González
Entrance fee: voluntary donation of 2-5 Euros for the artists, thank you very much!
15th and 16th of April, at 8.30 pm.
The Psychonautic Vibrogroove
Technoid live-band and humanoid dance sensation goes X.
The Psychonautic Vibrogroove places its installation in cosy narrowness at Savvy Contemporary.
Bring your friends shake your glance and do the dance.
Music: Jan Lange, Konrad Bechler , Michael Steffensky, Ferdinand Kumpfmüller, Sebastian Völkers
Performance: Katja Scholz and Stephanie Scheubeck
SAVVY Contemporary
Richardstr.43/44
12055 Berlin-Neukölln
17th and 18th of september, at 8.30 pm.
"Every woman who had to wear the veil for years and is then depositing it, will bear witness to the fact that walking without it is dificult at first - as if the legs were unable to act in the right way because of their bareness." Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Participating artists: Chris Enke, Cilgia Carla Gadola, Simone Grindel, Romana Ramer, Livia Rutishauser, as well as the singer Karen Tortzen.
Everybody is tied or locked up to many attitudes and most of them are not even realized. Because we were taught in our childhood, what should or should not be done and thus many behavioural patterns have been solidified and considered to be right without any periodical re-evaluations. Why not take a different track on your way to the metro-station, so as to discover something new? Or maybe soup from a wine glass tastes better than from a soup bowl? Can we gain a new insight by doing so?
The detailed performance´s concept
Videos of the 4th performance on the SAVVY-Youtube-Cannel
16th and 17th of July 2010, at 8.30 p.m.
"I do not want to know where I come from, who I am, where I will go to." Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller´s quotation of the upcoming third performance-presentation at SAVVY Contemporary describes the constitution of an identity without the consideration of the past or future. It is more a single person´s examination of his or her environment and person expressed in a very indiviual way in the form of a dance-performance.
Artists:
1. Performance: Nobuhiro Mitani und Tomoko Nakasato (Performance), Makiho (Violine)
2. Performance: João Victor Toledo
Concept of the third performance at SAVVY Contemporary, here:
21st and 22nd May 2010, at 8.30 p.m.
„The thought, that my corpse will outlive myself, is creating a special relationship between me and my body“. Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir, one of the leading masterminds of the European feminist movement, was born on the 9th of January 1908 in Paris. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne University and travelled around Europe, North Africa and later on around America. Her storytelling, dramatic and essayistic works are deeply influenced by her dialectic-material and existential ideology. „I wanted to make myself existing for others by telling them in a very direct way how I see my own life. I succeed in that: I got some real enemies, but I found within my readers also some very good friends. That was exactly what I was hoping for“. Simone de Beauvoir died on the 14th of April 1986 in Paris.
Two groups of performance artists have been working on this quotation by Simone de Beauvoir and will show their results in the form of a performance presentation.
Participating artists: Florian Bücking, Rebecca Fratini, Daniela Gast, Signe Koefoed, Raisa Kröger, Nadia Lafi, Sarah Menger, Katharina Meyer, Saskia Oidtmann, Constantin Popp, Jakob Yaw, Dorina and Polina Djouglarska, Olivia and Patrizia Kowalak.
The performance series at SAVVY Contemporary is directed by Cilgia Gadola
19. and 20. März 2010, at 8.30 p.m.
„Every real feeling is in reality not translatable. To express it means to betray it. But to translate it means to hide it." Antonin Artaud
The performance-artists Jung Sun Kim , Se-Rock Cohen-Park, Rachel Brocker and Laura Weiss were working with this quotation of Antonin Artaud. They will show their results in a performance- presentation at SAVVY Contemporary. The performance allows the visitors to see the different working processes and to be part at the artistic presentation.
Performance: Jung Sun Kim and Se-Rok Cohen-Park, Rachel Brooker and Laura Weiss
Voice/Sound: Summer Banks
Production: Anique Vered
Kim, Jung-Sun (born 1975 in Seoul/Korea) is choreographer, dancer and head of the 'Sun Day Project Group'. She studied corean dance at the Ihwa Women University and Choreographie at the Korean National University of Arts(KNUA).
Rachel Brooker is dancer and choreografer. She founded and is leading the Anima Dance, a company for contemporary dance and The Field Berlin, a branch office in New York for the support of artists. She has international experience as choreografin and teacher and also was a performer with Marc Bogaerts, Felix Ruckert, Sabine Dahrendorf, Jenny Haack and Dai Jian (Shen Wei Dance Arts). More information at www.animadance.org.
Laura Weiss is dancing since she was five years old. She studied dance and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago and at the Columbia College in 2005 to finish with a B.A. of the UofC. Since then she is working with Felix Ruckert, Audio Ballerinas, Next Zone Company and her own dance-projects.
Anique Vered is curator and cultur-manager specialisated on festivalproducation and cultural developement. At the moment she is sudying anthropology and is producing the performance The Body in Future Tense(d) and the Patches’ debut project Risk Collectors, a liberary of riscs, which is explored by interdisziplinary Media.
Se-Rok Park worked as actor, voice-artist, performer and teacher in Great Britain, Germany, Korea, Canada and Southamerica. She studied Physical Theater at the HKU, Utrecht, NL and got her MA in classical actor in London and studies in western canto, korean- traditional voice-technics and voice-body-work, influenced by Grotowskis´ methode. Since 2008 she is Co-Direktor of the Kosmos in Movement- Project and works in Europa and Southamerica.
Summer Banks is a writer and actor. Trained as a opera singer she also works as a moderator and comidian. In Berlin she work in The Antigone Project, Lindy Annis and ComedySportz Berlin as actor and regiseur.
Conzept of the Performance Art at Savvy Contemporary
The basic for the work are two performer or performing groups, a quotation of an artistic, philosophic or historic personality. On this basic the artists will creat a performance of 30 minutes. The working process will then translate ideas and opinions of people in a performance. The process of the performance is above all in the foreground of the idea "art as mirror of our time and society", regarding perspectives of the past that can be involved in the performance in a creativ way. Another aspect is to bring artists with different styles and background together.