A Shared Stage of Contingent Production

A Shared Stage of Contingent Production" at HAU

Live performance and moving image
The event took place on March 13, 2012 at HAU 1 /Hebbel am Ufer.

Two works by Ian White and Johannes Paul Raether explored the relationship between live performance and the moving image. Drawed from the collection of artists' films at Arsenal the two performances dissected the theatre space along its proscenium arch, between the auditorium and the stage, performance and production.

Trauerspiel 1
by Ian White

In the auditorium – structured around Walter Benjamin's ideas about the origin of German tragic drama – films by Karola Schlegelmilch, Klaus Telscher, Hellmuth Costard, Peter Weiss and Robyn Brentano & Andrew Horn alternate with a series of actions. An allegory of Love and Time, they generate each other. It is a sketch: of architecture, the body, light and shadow – a production of images that are not there but here.

BAUCHLANDUNG, Karola Schlegelmilch, Germany 1991, 16mm, 3 min
HER MONA, Klaus Telscher, Germany 1992, 16mm, 7 min
BESONDERS WERTVOLL, Hellmuth Costard, Germany 1968, 16mm, 11 min
STUDIE IV (Frigörelse), Peter Weiss, Sweden 1954, 16mm, 9 min
CLOUD DANCE, Robyn Brentano & Andrew Horn, USA 1980, 16mm, 13 min

You can download more information about the performance of Ian White as a PDF file.