UNTURTLED
JULY 19 and 20, 2010
Hamburger Sprechwerk, 8 pm
(ca. 60 minutes)
• Public discussion with the artists after performances.
Unturtled might suggest a removal of the shell from the turtle’s back to reveal what is hidden beneath. The work of Isabelle Schad and Laurent Goldring, however, doesn’t allow us to peep under the cover. On the contrary, the body is disappearing almost completely underneath the moving accessory that nevertheless exposes its movements as materiality. It appears almost as if the clothes are moving by themselves; in elongations, expansions and contractions, condensations, flatulencies and tightenings produced by the puffs of the blouse, which seemingly take away the body’s own movement impulses. Unturtled does not ‘unwrap’ the body, but initiates a deliberate confusion around the question of where movement starts and its separation from the controlling subject. The observer’s eye imagines body parts, which are responsible for the respective sequences and then is subsequently lead astray. The body presents itself as an imaginary one. Except for the legs and head it becomes invisible under its shell and allows only for presumptions upon its appearances.
Susanne Foellmer
Choreography: Isabelle Schad, Laurent Goldring
Light and sound: Bruno Pocheron
Kiosk.Helper: Jula Lüthje
• A Isabelle Schad production in cooperation with CCN Tours, Espace Passolini - Théâtre International, Sophiensaele Berlin, TanzWerkstatt Berlin. Funded by The Governing Mayor of Berlin - Senate Chancellery Cultural Affairs, Performing Arts Fund eV.
Isabelle Schad
In my work I research the relationship between body, ist langage and representations.
“I find interesting to observe the theater space as place for imagination and as a space that allows us to question our way to see and to displace our perception. I like the possibility to call associative processes which bring the observers to their own experience, emotions or live history.
I find important to develop work methods according to my political comprehension: the interchange of ideas and (body)practices and knowledge as instrument of circulation, continuity and cooperation with other artists. In the last years I have been intensively working with the light, stage and sound designer Bruno Pocheron; our shared project Good Work is a artist network which investigates not hierarchical work methods by the development of contemporary performances.”
Isabelle Schad
Isabelle Schad is choreographer and dancer and lives in Berlin. In her work she investigates the relationship between body, is language and representations.
From 1981 until 1990 she studied classical dance in Stuttgart. She danced six years long for different Ballet companies before she got member of Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus in Brussels and than worked together with choreographers like Olga Mesa, Angela Guerreiro, Felix Ruckert, and Eszter Salamon. Since 1999 she creates her own choreographic works and projects, which are internationally showed in theaters, galleries and festivals.
She started 2003 together with Bruno Pocheron and Ben Anderson the international artist network and project Good Work and developes at the moment many works, among others with Benoit Lachambre, Martin Belanger, Nuno Bizarro, Manuel Pelmus, Frédéric Gies, Hanna Hedman, which has been also international performed.
She created 2006 a piece in cooperation with Germana Civera aund Laurent Goldring (Festival Montpellier Danse) and a solo together with Dalija Acin; she is a member of the project Praticable, in cooperation with Alice Chauchat, Frédéric de Carlo, Frédéric Gies, and Odile Seitz. 2007 directed the mentoring project Tanztage Berlin, created BACH for 2 dancers in Sofia as well as her new solo Ohne Worte (Praticable). She got various awards, scholarships and artist-in-residence places. 2009 she created together with Simone Aughterlony the group performance Sweet Dreams Are Made.
Laurent Goldring
“Video images come from photography. These images are, in my opinion, works in themselves ; but they have their own existence, they have generated a most singular universe. The discovery that, to produce different images, new relationships had to be created between the different protagonists of the shots, with all of the risk that this sort of exercise involves – this discovery led me to seek out new processes of collaboration in different fields.”
Laurent Goldring give his own work the name “bodymade”, what evoques ideas and questions with them he occupies himself. What aesthetical and philosophic drafts are possible if you works according to the conception of Marcel Duchmaps of “ready-made” as well as to the modern tendencies of body-art? How can you free the naked body from ist big symbolic and so to make it objective? Goldring sees and uses the body as artistic instrument. His videos are never just reproductions. The artist with them he works must leave their own image and allows new ones to emerge.
Laurent Goldring was born 1957 and began his career as visual artist after his philosophy studies. Through photography he changes to video and medial arts. He deals in his photographic and video with representations of body.
His works were shown at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Fondation Gulbenkian in Lisbon, and the Centre Chorégraphique National Montpellier, among others. His artistic spectrum includes sculpture (Serie Ne pas toucher,) history of art (Lectures intitrées, Hypothèses numérotées) and choreography: he cooperates with Xavier Le Roy for Blut et Boredom, Self Unfinished; Jean-Michel Rabeux for Les Enfers, Carnaval; Benoît Lachambre for L'Âne et la Bouche; Saskia Holbling for RRR, Other Features; Maria Donata d’Urso for Pezzo O Due and Germana Civera for Figures. “Is you me”, his last work with Benoît Lachambre and Louise Lecavalier makes now a tour in Germany. “‘Is you me’ is pure art. It is a lively canvas – concentrated theater of gesture. (The Montreal Gazette, 25.05.2007)
Bruno Pocheron
He studied performance, video and photography at the Ecole des Belles Arts in Dijon, France. He has since 1996 worked for many international performance projects as light and stage designer, technical director ans some times as performer. He works with Isabelle Schad and also with Xavier Le Roy (Project, Le Sacre du Printemps), Alice Chauchat (J’aime, Crystalll), Alix Eynaudi (Crystalll, Supernaturel) and Anne Juren (J’aime, Komposition), Martin Nachbar (Repeater), Akemi Takeya (Feeler), Lito Walkey (the Missing Dance n°7). He started 2003 together with Isabelle Schad and Ben Anderson the project Good Work and in this context he took part of the realisation of different performances.