Foto: Eugenia Rufino
LaborGras & Volker Schnüttgen: Habitat
Premiere: Friday, December, 17th, 2010, 10pm
Further performances: Dec, 18th, 10 pm and Dec,19th, 6 pm
Venue: Radialsystem V, Berlin (D)
Holzmarktstr. 33
10243 Berlin
Tickets: 0049-(0)30 - 288 788 588
www.radialsystem.de
Habitat
is a design for an interactive, temporary performance installation that invites audiences to enter multiple layers of virtual and real space. Spectators experience how these spaces come to life from any perspective of their choice.
Concept: LaborGras & Volker Schnüttgen
Choreography: LaborGras (Renate Graziadei & Arthur Stäldi)
Performer: Renate Graziadei
Sculptures & virtual interior design: Volker Schnüttgen
Video art: Frieder Weiss & Martin Bellardi
Composition & live music: Constantin Popp [PhD composer @ NOVARS]
Costumes: Chantal Margiotta
Assistance Costumes: Claudia Janitschek
Sculpture assistance: Fernando Almeida
Technical director: Jochen Massar
Production: Inge Zysk
Public Relations: Yven Augustin
HABITAT is a LaborGras & Volker Schnüttgen production and is supported by funds from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin. Generous support is also provided by Kirchoff Automotive and Galeria Arthobler.
The Studio LaborGras and the performances of „Habitat“ at RADIALSYSTEM V are subsidised by „der Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten.“
The work in progress 2008 version was created in cooperation with Espaço dos Tempos Convento da Saudação, Montemor-o-Novo, with Faculdade De Belas Artes Do Porto and was supported by Kirchhoff Automotive.
Wood-carved sculptures provide the general framework for the performance-installation space. Each individual sculpture also contains an intimate inner space that the viewer must discover.
These interior spaces are equipped with a screen and speaker. The screen reveals a virtual space that is a media-generated extension of the sculpture, building a virtual stage for the dancer and her choreography.
The dancer performs in a clearly defined area, which is integrated into the general performance-installation framework. Dance and sculpture are united through the use of new technology and a software programme developed especially for this performance.
The real-time video projections establish a link between the choreography in real space and the dance taking place in the sculpture's virtual spaces. The virtual stages (screens) come alive as the dance unfolds.
The dancer inhabits the sculpture's virtual spaces as a single image or as multiple clones of herself. Every movement is born of an exchange with, and in relation to, the sculpture's virtual inner spaces.
As she performs, the dancer is aware of the "habitats" defined by her interaction with the sculpture's inner rooms. The choreographic interpretation remains part of the sculpture as a digital recording.
The dancer inhabits separate "Habitats" of the sculptural installation without physically leaving the dance area.
For the spectators, the environment is both performance and installation, challenging and encouraging them to leave the safety of simple observation and discover new ways to perceive the world around them.
This accessible, walkable installation becomes the audience's temporary living space; a space that comes alive because the audience's own movement brings them to simultaneously discover the real and the media-generated life within the sculptures.
There is no distance between stage, spectator, performer, sound and sculpture, so that the artistic process becomes transparent as the performance progresses.
Announcement: LaborGras celebrates 10 years in Berlin!
on December 28th + 29th, at 7pm
The LaborGras collective, founded by dancers Renate Graziadei and Arthur Stäldi in Hamburg in 1994, has been in Berlin since 2000.
To mark the occasion, LaborGras will celebrate its 10th "Berliner" anniversary on December 28 & 29 in the company of friends, collaborators and the public.
For two days, friends from the art and performance scene in Germany and abroad will present excerpts from their work: the stage will be open to performances, videos and improvisations.
For a detailed program, visit www.laborgras.com.
We'll be happy to be at your disposal,
Inge Zysk / Renate Graziadei
LaborGras
Management Inge Zysk
Großbeerenstr. 56E
10965 Berlin
tel:+49-(0)30-20075811
mobil: +49-(0)172-3249720
mail: inge.zysk@t-online.de
www.laborgras.com
