#ResidencyInsights cat mahari & Jarius King

»In my work I have been staring into the face of questions regarding Black liberation, anarchism, play, and the ways our current order of  relations can give way to modes of being that are inherently liberatory from modernity's framing. This is articulated via sound and movement exploration that center Hip Hop as an anarcho-choreographic modality.«

Ends of Worlds

How can we say something about the future through the lens of the past? Michiel
Vandevelde examines the recent history of western modern and contemporary dance,
from Isadora Duncan to Anna Halprin. Their dances and choreographies are read as
codes and signs from the past that infiltrate the future. Which ideological remains are
reflected through these dances? What if the traces of these dances are to survive
humankind as we know it? How would they be interpreted in the future?

#ResidencyInsights Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki

›Small notes on history.‹ is part of my extended research ›From body to body‹ which focuses on the practice and lives of midwives during the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1924, as a result of the Treaty of Lausanne. My interest in this subject comes from my own family's history, their part in the exchange and my great aunt Despoina, a practicing midwife in both Turkey and Greece.

#ResidencyInsights Aii Wijaya & Ikbal Lubys

»Palm oil is a slow moving liquid , but many things are moving and changing very fast due palm oil production. It changes the environment, social, political, economic, people's mindset, habit and life. Ironically, the largest producer of palm oil in the world uses only 20% of its production, but the ones who receive the greatest impact directly. Such as a coin, this magical fruit have two different faces  that only one can choose from.

Tim Etchells about Shifting Ground

#ResidencyInsights Göksu Kunak

»Somewhere in this world, not so far away from where you’re reading this now, people are being sentenced to life in prison, or being tortured; their voices are not heard anymore. Atrocities of a government cause pain. While the nationalistic ideals are being proliferated—as a part of the  monthly deal, the country wants to land on the moon fifty-three years after the original landing.«

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Deepika Arwind, Shaymaa Shoukry & Andi Otto

»We came to play with the idea of the ritual; to reimagine and disrupt rituals that felt redundant and oppressive; to create fantastic and liberating ones. We used repetition. We made the floor, the box, the blackboard into musical instruments that interacted with the body. We found shrines in Zollverein. We filmed ourselves moving through these structures. Against a landscape that looked nothing like we’d seen, we tussled with our relationship with our cultures and rituals.«

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HARTMANNMUELLER

Die Residenz bei PACT nutzen HARTMANNMUELLER als dritte und letzte Probenphase für ihre aktuelle Produktion ›EDEN - Die Stimmung war ganz gut bis zum Schluss‹ und widmen sich dabei der Frage: Was war eigentlich los im Garten Eden?

Tim Etchells im Interview zu ›Under Bright Light‹