Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm
subjoyride

  • Fri 14.11.25 20 h
  • Sat 15.11.25 20 h
A scene from subjoyride. The photo shows Boglárka Börcsök on stage. Boglárka has red hair and wears a bob with bangs. She is wearing a short white top with black stripes and a red skirt. She is looking to the left. In the background is a red curtain that reveals a colourful painting.
Photo: Mayra Wallraff
A scene from the performance subjoyride. The photo shows Boglárka Börcsök on a stage bathed in green light. She is standing behind a microphone, into which she appears to be singing. Her left arm is in the air, her index finger pointing upwards. Boglárka has short dark hair and is wearing a white shirt with a print showing a face.
Photo: Mayra Wallraff
A scene from the performance subjoyride. The photo shows Boglárka Börcsök on a darkened stage. She has red hair and wears a bob with bangs and a red costume. She stands barefoot on the stage, her body slightly bent forward. Her hands are at chest height. With raised eyebrows, she looks forward to the right.
Photo: Mayra Wallraff
A scene from the performance subjoyride. The photo shows Boglárka Börcsök sitting barefoot with her legs spread apart on a darkened stage. She is wearing a red costume and a kind of white spiked helmet on her head. She has stuck on a moustache and is looking straight into the camera with her eyes wide open. Her shoulders are covered by a white cape.
Photo: Mayra Wallraff

Duration 
1h 20min

Language 
English, partly German

Artist Talk
Following the performance on November 14 there will be an artist talk.

TICKETS 14.11. TICKETS 15.11.

In their new production ›subjoyride‹, Berlin-based choreographer and performer Boglárka Börcsök and artist and film maker Andreas Bolm take a deeper dive into their work that lies at the intersection between the personal, emotional and historical. They turn to the grotesque and the marginalised and explore the shimmering and eccentric work of Dadaist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927). 

Using voice, gesture and the body, they scrutinise the famous readymade »Fountain« and query who it is actually attributed to – long celebrated as the work of Marcel Duchamp, it is now increasingly linked to the Baroness. 

›subjoyride‹ takes the audience on a journey through the mechanisms of the art canon and demonstrates how cultural and social structures are perpetuated within it. 
 

Artistic concept, dramaturgy, music, scenography Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm Performance Boglárka Börcsök Text Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm Lighting & technical direction Catalina Fernández Sound design Neda Sanai Costume design SADAK Production assistance Beatrice Zanesco Vocal coach, music advisor Vera Jónás Artistic advisor Susanne Sachsse Production & distribution Nicole Schuchardt, Rodrigo Zorzanelli 3D Print “Fountain” Daniel Valencia Ferrá / Digital Craft 

A production by: Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm. In co-production with: Black Box Theater (Oslo), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Sophiensaele (Berlin)

Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Supported by the NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ, Koproduktionsförderung Tanz, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

With the kind support of: Tanzfabrik Berlin e. V. and Centre Français de Berlin, Kristina Konrad – Weltfilm. Thanks to: Dragana Bulut, Jule Flierl, Christiane Hommelsheim.

Poems of Baroness Elsa Freytag von Loringhoven referenced in the performance:
Coachrider (ca. 1924)
Mefk Maru Mustír Daas (1918) 
They won't let go fart (ca.1923-1925)
Graveyard surrounding nunnery (ca. 1921)
To whom it may concern (ca.1922)
Fix (ca. 1924-1925)

The title of the performance is borrowed from the poem Subjoyride (ca. 1920-1922). 

Accompanying the show, the conference ‘Materiality Matters. Figurations of Comic Bodies and Things’ will take place from November 13 to 15 at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI). All information about the conference and about the participation can be found on the KWI website:

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