A Shared Stage of Contingent Production
Project Description
"A Shared Stage of Contingent Production" brings together a number of different artists each of whom proposes to take a different research route through the Arsenal collection and to use this as the means to produce separate live performances for the theatre. The resulting works will be presented together over one evening at the Hebbel-Theater in 2012.
The research will draw upon the artists' own interests and practices, acknowledging as part of this process the possibilities and limitations of using a work – or works – of film as a kind of text to generate a live performance. Areas of special interest include narrative, character, politics, translation and space in relation to the overlapping yet distinct capacities of the cinematic and the theatrical auditorium – the economies, cultures or architectures of which are also considered as possible material.
The project is instigated by Ian White. It follows and is loosely guided by the ideas contained in a series of seminars given by him at no.w.here and LUX in London exploring the relationship between theatre, "liveness" and artists' film and video, and his previous curatorial projects for Kino Arsenal, It’s Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But The Situation In Which He Lives (2009) and Kopietheater (2010 Berlinale). It has been developed and further conceived equally by the contributing artists.
Contributors:
Ian White is an artist, curator and writer specialising in performance and artists’ moving image who works between Berlin and London.
Johannes Paul Raether is an artist and lives and works in Berlin.
Biography of Ian White