Shifting Grounds – IN COMMON
Dates:
As part of ›Shifting Grounds – IN COMMON‹
All events of the festival ›Shifting Grounds – IN COMMON‹ will be filmed and photographed for documentation and promotional purposes. The resulting images will be published for public relations purposes in print media as well as on PACT Zollverein’s website and social media channels. If you, as a visitor, do not wish to appear in these images, please inform the PACT team on site. You can recognize team members by their purple lanyards.
Accessibility
The Zollverein slag heap is not accessible to wheelchair users or people with mobility impairments due to uneven paths and slopes.
1 / 2 Annamaria Ajmone – ›La notte è il mio giorno preferito‹ © Natalia Trejbalova
To kick off the summer festival ›Shifting Grounds – IN COMMON‹, a performative tour will take place across the slag heap. The works approach the landscape from various perspectives: through dance, voice, sound, and choreographic arrangements that directly connect the body and the environment.
Anna Ehlert, Sustainability and Environmental Management Officer of Zeche Zollverein, opens up a view of the slag heap as a living landscape. Over drinks, she introduces the industrial nature of the site – barren soils, wild vegetation, surprising habitats, and the unique interplay of mining history and biodiversity.
In ›La notte è il mio giorno preferito (To Watch Unseen)‹, Annamaria Ajmone explores the figure of the “Other”. Emerging from the atmosphere of a nocturnal forest, a choreography unfolds that explores speculative kinships between bodies, animals, plants, and materials.
In the solo ›untitled‹, caner teker examines how resistance, vulnerability, and perseverance are physically articulated. On the slag heap, the body becomes a political terrain.
Alma Söderberg presents a version of ›Infinitude / small version‹, adapted for three performers as a sensual, rhythmic journey across the slag heap. Inspired by the intensity of flamenco, a multi-layered composition emerges – somewhere between concert and dance performance – in which movement, voice, and thought are interdependent, and emotions become physical.
The tour concludes with a sound performance by Jan St. Werner and Madison Greenstone, set in a hallucinogenic, mirage-like soundscape that draws on the acoustic properties of Ulrich Rückriem’s stone sculpture "Castell" and transforms the site itself into a resonant space.
Dates:
As part of ›Shifting Grounds – IN COMMON‹
All events of the festival ›Shifting Grounds – IN COMMON‹ will be filmed and photographed for documentation and promotional purposes. The resulting images will be published for public relations purposes in print media as well as on PACT Zollverein’s website and social media channels. If you, as a visitor, do not wish to appear in these images, please inform the PACT team on site. You can recognize team members by their purple lanyards.
Accessibility
The Zollverein slag heap is not accessible to wheelchair users or people with mobility impairments due to uneven paths and slopes.
PROGRAMME
6 p.m. // PACT terrace
Opening & Welcome with Stefan Hilterhaus & Danja Burchard (PACT)
6.10 p.m. // PACT terrace
Talk by Prof. Dr. Aletta Bonn – ›Biodiversity as a Shared Practice: On Industrial Nature, Participation, and Shared Habitats‹
6.30 p.m. // Slag heap
Performative tour across the slag heap with:
Anna Ehlert – Talk on the biodiversity at the slag heap Zollverein
TalkAnnamaria Ajmone – ›La notte è il mio giorno preferito (To Watch Unseen)‹
Performance / Dancecaner teker – ›untitled‹
Performance / DanceAlma Söderberg – ›Infinétude / small version‹
Performance / DanceJan St. Werner & Madison Greenstone
Performance
9 p.m. // PACT terrace
DJ-Set by Deena Abdelwahed
THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL AT THE SLAG HEAP
Mascha Fehse – ›Recreational Successions – Second Succession‹
Installation
Related Events
German premiere