Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 6, 2014.
The physicality of Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot‘s performances makes you squirm. The intense panting, flopping, slapping, and movements not even thought controllable or possible, ebb and flow. The duo’s performance at Hebbel am Ufer, is maybe, began almost as scenes of a domestic dispute in slow motion, with sluggish punches and shoves in the fashion of capoeira…[read on…]
Blog post by Linus Ignatius – in Berlin; Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2014.
I am at Ufer Studios for the Crossover Projekt, a dance series curated by Isabel Gotzkowsky. Her mission is to pair young dancers in search of experience with eminent choreographers from all over Europe…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Saturday, Apr. 12, 2014.
Kunsthaus Bethanien will host a night of culminating work for artist Amir Fattal on Wednesday, April 16th. Shadow of Smoke Rings on the Wall, a book of his art accompanied by essays, will be presented and celebrated with a performance. The performance, titled…[read on…]
Article by Linus Ignatius – in Berlin; Frirday, Apr. 11, 2014.
I am standing on the corner of Kurfürstendamm and Albrecht-Achilles-Straße, kicking the ground. I have just left MEAT, a conceptual theater piece installed in the Schaubühne studios, directed by Swedish artist Thomas Bo Nilsson. I am waiting for an Italian rentboy…[read on…]
Article by Anna Wallace-Thompson – in London; Tuesday, Apr. 01, 2014.
A recent retrospective of the Berlin-based performance artist in London marked 13 years of performative practice by Nezaket Ekici, including a three-day live performance and installation at Pi Artworks…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi, photos by Emelie Flood – in Berlin; Saturday, Mar. 15, 2014.
The small space at Emerson Gallery held an intimate performance on Friday. It was intimate in that the space was personal and sparsely populated, but the performance itself can better be described as explicit, drawing aggressive contrasts between two different Secret Garden’s: one the classic…[read on…]
Blog post by Emelie Flood – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 20, 2014.
The first evening of the One Night Stand series took place at KW Institute for Contemporary Art last Thursday. The project space NOTE ON presented Crampographies, a combination of performance and video art which reflected the potentiality of the cramp as a collective-singular collapse from a feminist and post-identitarian perspective…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014.
Live tableaus may seem like a played out and gimmicky art trend, but the performance Afterimage / Anti-Demo from Yvon Chabrowski last Thursday at the Eigen + Art Lab offered a tasteful poignancy to scenes modelled after viral photos of Russian activists at the hands of the police…[read on…]
As I suspected it would be – strangely, even before meeting Jen Ray in person – the studio visit was both laid-back and intellectually enlightening. The…[read on]
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 PLATOON KUNSTHALLE “Dazed Visionaries” – MATT LAMBERT Screening: Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013; 7pm Schönhauser Allee 9 (click here for map) Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 THE GYM “I can’t believe people are still making work like this” – TOMASZ KOBIALKA Opening Reception: Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013; 6-10pm Buttmannstrasse 21 (click here for… Read more »
