SAT 30.05.09 17.00 – 19.00 h, GROSSE BÜHNE

ADRIAN HEATHFIELD (GB) & TEHCHING HSIEH (TW/US)


WALKING OUT OF LIFE (2 h)

Performance Lecture & Talk

British writer and curator Adrian Heath field (GB), Professor for Performance and Visual Culture at the Roehampton University in London and therenowned Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh (TW/US), discuss the aesthetics of duration and the models of time. Heathfield’s presentation will focus on Hsieh’s extraordinary ‘lifeworks’ in the early 1980s in which the artist undertook a series of taxing One Year Performances which were determined by strict rules that radically altered his life. Tehching Hsieh will also talk in person to the audience about his work.

Photo ©: Tehching Hsieh

SAT 30.05.09 20.00 h UNTIL SUN 31.05.09 02.00 h, GROSSE BÜHNE

JOÃO EVANGELISTA (PT)


THE END MUST GO ON (6 h)


Performance

Inspired by a random generator of worst case scenarios, a director, light designer and three performers shift roles, negotiate decisions and endure a performative system that ultimately exposes ›The End‹ as a human construction.

João Evangelista (PT) is a young director living in Amsterdam who has worked, amongst others, with Forced Entertainment and Meg Stuart.

SAT 30.05.09 21.00 h UNTIL SUN 31.05.09 21.00 h, FOYER

JULIE TOLENTINO (US)


A TRUE STORY ABOUT TWO PEOPLE (24 h)

Dance/Performance

Barefoot and blindfolded Julie Tolentino (US) dances for a full 24 hours in a small, mirrored ballroom and invites members of the audience, one after the other, to dance with her on a square of grass. The New York dancer and choreographer has collaborated with numerous renowned performance artists including David Roussève and Ron Athey.

Photo ©: Christian Lahr

SUN 31.05.09 11.00 – 21.00 h, STUDIO 1

WANG BING (CN)


WEST OF THE TRACKS (10 h)


Film

The film documents in three parts the inevitable decline of the Tiexi industrial region once considered a shining example of China’s socialist economy.

Chinese director Wang Bing (CN), one of the most important documentary directors of our time, meticulously followed the daily routine of the last factory workers over a period of 10 years.

SUN 31.05.09 12.00 – 20.00 h

VLATKA HORVAT (HR/US)


THIS HERE AND THAT THERE (8 h)

Performance

Painstakingly, live art artist Vlatka Horvat (HR/US) moves 50 chairs back and forth. Each arrangement of the chairs implies a set of possible relations between their imagined occupants, evoking a myriad of possibilities and scenarios related to human interaction.

›This Here and That There‹ was originally commissioned by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) for ›nomadic new york‹, curated by André Lepecki.

SUN 31.05.09 15.00 – 17.00 h, TERRACE

NADIA LAURO (FR) / LAURENCE CRÉMEL (FR)


LES COUREUSES (2 h)


Start of Installation / Sound Stimulation with Manuel Coursin

Nadia Lauro enters a group of Spanish runner bean plants, which can grow as high as seven meters, in a long distance race. The challenge is to see which of the identical 12 competing plants can cover the most distance over a period of several months. The race, complete with numbered starting blocks, lanes, referee chairs, supporters and audio doping, enforces the contradiction between the spectacular tempo of sport races and the imperceptible tempo of plant growth.

Nadia Lauro (FR) is a visual artist and designer based in Paris who develops work in multiple contexts including performance, landscape architecture, installation art, screenplays and film, set design and fashion. In 2000 she received a New York Dance and Performance Award (›Bessie Award‹) for her visual installation ›$Shot‹.

Laurence Crémel (FR) studied at the Versailles National School of Landscape Architecture As a freelance landscape architect she frequently collaborates with experts from varied fields. As well as designing gardens and public spaces, she compiles case studies on urban developments and industrial redevelopments.
In 1998 she founded ›Squash Cake Bureau‹ with the visual artist and designer, Nadia Lauro.