The website is conceived as a depository of material related to my studio work as well as source texts, images, videos and podcasts that have influenced my practice and understanding of improvisation as a tool to counter-act the prevailing societal preference for narrative, classical dramaturgy, resolution.
The documents gathered here all point to an understanding of the creative process and expression in an image of meditation where attending to the present and its complexity is a part of methodology which avoids fixed meaning, mythologization, distortion of situations into assimilable facts. They escape any clearly definable "aboutness" and engage with "meaning" as if it were in a state of constant flux, physically and sensually perceivable, but not held or contained.
Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
Gravity & Grace
Chris Kraus interviewed by Martin Rumsby on her feature film Gravity & Grace
Fleeting Happiness
Aliens & Anorexia
The Simplest Thing
2022-08-16 / II
2022-08-16 at Ziegrastr. studio, Berlin
same as before, but a little less abstract
Aliens & Anorexia
Funk Lessons
excerpt from Notes on Funk by Adrian Piper - read full text here: https://www.are.na/block/7649658
+ excerpt from the tape Funk Lessons, a project by Adrian Piper - rent full video here: http://www.adrianpiper.com
Leviathan
excerpt from Leviathan, a novel by Paul Auster
Weak Dance Strong Questions
excerpt from the notebooks of Jonathan Burrows and Jan Ritsema / Weak Dance Strong Questions, read full text here: https://www.academia.edu/29092591/Weak_Dance_Strong_Questions
Hour of the Star
excerpt from Hour of the Star, a novel by Clarice Lispector
2022-08-16
2022-08-16 at Ziegrastr. studio, Berlin
w. says there are two types of dancers: those who make you believe there is no gravity, and those who make you realize there is gravity
Spike Art Magazine
fb story by Spike Art Magazine
The Picture of Dorian Gray
excerpt from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2022-11-07
2022-11-07 in Marzahn, Berlin
another one of the lumidees
The White Album
excerpts from The White Album by Joan Didion // read full text here: https://www.reachcambridge.com/wp-content/uploads/Friday-5th-August-Afternoon-Session-Oversharing-Joan-Didion-The-White-Album.pdf
2020-10-29
2020-10-29 at Horse & Pony, Berlin
Fiorucci made me Hardcore by Mark Leckey
2020-03-14
2020-03-14 at Uferstudios, Berlin
2020-11-08
2020-11-08 at Horse & Pony, Berlin
On the Balinese Theatre
excerpt from The Theatre and Its Double by Antonin Artaud, read full text here: http://www.alchemists.com/fb/theatre_its_double.pdf
2022-08-17
2022-08-17 at Ziegrastr., Berlin
A Choreographic Mind: Autobodygraphical Writings
excerpt from A Choreographic Mind: Autobodygraphical Writings by Susan Rethorst - https://kinesis.teak.fi/susan-rethorst-a-choreographic-mind/
2022-03-28
2022-03-28 in Marzahn, Berlin
having a (formalized) tantrum at the realization that yes, passion can steer you wrong
// audio by diane diprima: https://youtu.be/sv2aBowQr74?t=374
Letters to Dance at Horse & Pony
Letters to Dance by Ewa Dziarnowska at Love Letters: Stories of Distant Proximities #6 Exhibition at Horse & Pony, 24.02.2021 // http://display-berlin.com/love-letters-part-2/
The Passion According to G.H.
excerpt from The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
Slow Days, Fast Company
After Kathy Acker
My Body, the Buddhist
excerpt from My Body, The Buddhist by Deborah Hay
2020-10-29
2020-10-29 at Horse & Pony, Berlin
2022-01-31
2022-01-31 in Marzahn, Berlin
prioritizing staying
2020-03-16
2020-03-16 at Uferstudios, Berlin
Politics of Method
excerpts from Politics of Method by Stephanie Skura, read full text here: https://www.stephanieskura.com/docs/politics%20of%20method%202.pdf
Reena Spaulings
excerpts from the preface to Reena Spaulings by Bernadette Corporation, read full text here: https://monoskop.org/images/4/46/Bernadette_Corporation_Reena_Spaulings.pdf
Art in the Postartistic Age
excerpt from Art in the Postartistic Age by Jerzy Ludwiński, read full text here: https://monoskop.org/images/f/f8/Ludwinski_Jerzy_Notes_from_the_Future_of_Art_Selected_Writings_2007.pdf
For the Birds
For the Birds / John Cage and Daniel Charles, read full text here: https://monoskop.org/images/0/07/For_the_Birds_John_Cage_in_Conversation_with_Daniel_Charles_1981.pdf
Beyond the Breakdown: Three Meditations on a Possible Aftermath
a quote from Beyond the Breakdown: Three Meditations on a Possible Aftermath by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, read full text here: https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/beyond-the-breakdown-three-meditations-on-a-possible-aftermath-by-franco-bifo-berardi/9727?fbclid=IwAR1LfTocMTCLRRh5g61ZfsPjpxvLSDM7TCDQRVdeto3YFW4-n3K6mX0QiN4
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
"(…) we’ve all heard all about all the sticks and spears and swords, the things to bash and poke and hit with, the long, hard things, but we have not heard about the thing to put things in, the container for the thing contained. That is a new story. (…) fitting shape of a novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us. (…) if one avoids the linear, progressive, Time’s-(killing)-arrow mode of Techno-Heroic, and redefines technology and science as primarily cultural carrier bag rather than weapon of domination, one pleasant effect is that science fiction can be seen as far less rigid, narrow field, not necessarily Promethean or apocalyptic at all, and in fact less a mythological genre than a realistic one.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
read full text here: http://theorytuesdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/The-Carrier-Bag-Theory-of-Fiction-Le-Guin.pdf