summer 2024
International Interaction Laboratory – Performances and Installations
Interaktionslabor, the media lab founded by Johannes Birringer, continues
its smaller scale series of plein air workshops and performance interventions
- pursued via the intersections of painting - writing - moving - filming and
photographing.
I.
Kat Macdonald, "shedding", performance-installation
« Shedding »
Kat Macdonald (London/UK)
dress design by Inflationary Assets (Agnes Cameron)
Continuous Performance –
Sunday, 14 July – 4:00 – 8:00 pm
Johannisstrasse 3A, 66111 Saarbrücken
Curator & introduction: Johannes Birringer
Gallery Puzic & Interaktionslabor invite to a special performance by British sound artist Kat Macdonald on Sunday 14 July, in the context of the annual Experimance sound festival and the recently opened exhibition "Lost in Transition" (the works of 18 international artists remain on display in the gallery).
Kat Macdonald’s artistic work draws on a complex web of experiences
of trauma, queerness, heartbreak, social structures and gender. The work explores
what it means to live a life intertwined with various forms of loss.
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Through various media - performance, sound art, visual and written forms –
her work asks audiences to reflect on their relationship as observers, with
Macdonald decoupling traditional presentation formats and giving audiences
a tactile sense of a body of work and its creation or unveiling.
shedding (2024) is an exploration of the Jungian persona, the layers we impose
on ourselves in order to achieve, in the artist's opinion, inauthentic and
superficial connections, love and attraction. Can these masks ever be fully
shed? Are we ever truly ourselves or rather assemblies of broken fragments
of our selves created decades earlier? Does the pursuit of impersonal interactions
with others really blind us to the reality of the world?
Shedding is a hybrid artwork that combines performance, audio design and play.
The piece builds on the work of Shedding Femme (2021) with a broader perspective
and will premiere for the first time in Germany on July 14th.
II.
A summer of discontent
Preparing film shoots for "Prospect Garden/Zone of Interest"
in preparation for the exhibition 'Gardens of Culture II'
organized by curator Nele Lipp
Poolhaus Blankenese, Hamburg, November 16-23
III
"Sisyphus of the Ear"
Japanese premiere of the fillm/concert production by Johannes Birringer and Paulo Chagas
with live percussion performance by French musician Thierry Miroglio
July 23 , 5:30 pm [Japan time] at Nagoya College of Music, Nagoya, Japan
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IV.
"The river of no one"
German premiere of the telematic dance work shown at a festival-conference in Munich
Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) 2024
BANAL DEVICES: EVERYDAY TECHNOLOGY IN GLOBALIZED TECHNOCULTURES
University of Music and Theatre Munich, 8-10 September 2024
Banal Devices is convened by Prof. Dr. Dani Ploeger, and hosted by the Chair of Performance and Technology at the University of Music and Theatre Munich. The conference will be accompanied by an exhibition of artworks curated by Dr. Elena Papadaki (curator and researcher, councillor at the Royal Society of Arts).
The river of no one (2022), produced by The Telepresence Stage and directed by Johannes Birringer & Michèle Danjoux
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Interaktionslabor started out in the abandoned coal mine Göttelborn in 2003. The experimental media lab, with its international residency program, has held a distinguished place amongst a few similar ventures that had been created, in the 2000s, especially in Essen and the Ruhr area (North-Rhine Westphalia) in Germany after the demise of coal mining and the old industrial labor of working underground. Best known amongst these are PACT Zollverein (Essen) and its artistic programs & dance research. Similar wokshops in disused industrial sites have been created in other parts of the world.
Interaktionslabor - now in its 21st year of operation – has recently shifted activities to smaller-scale projects that take place at different locations in the Saarland, Europe, and abroad, involving small groups of artists who use the 'retreat model' as a collective method of focussing creative skills and somatechnic practices.
Interaktionslabor also has begun a cooperation with Gallery Puzic in Saarbrücken, and will create a series of special events (workshops, performances, film screenings) over the coming years.
The very first such collaboration already took place in December 2022 when Johannes Birringer brought a documentary film performance from Ukranian director Olga Danylyuk – A visit to the Minotaur – to the gallery and presented it on an evening decicated to reflections on war and art.
The plein air compostition workshops engage performance-media design, interactional concepts, investigations of gestural processes, protocols, and social choreography through painting, drawing, photography, writing and walking.
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contact:
Johannisstr. 3A
66111 Saarbrücken
info@gallery-puzic.com
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10 Years of Interaktionslabor:
Vanessa Michielon interview with Johannes Birringer
For information on the workshops between 2014 - 2018 (METABODY) - please visit the international platform (http://www.metabody.eu/).
Johannes Birringer and Michèle Danjoux have collaborated on the Madrid platforms (2014 and 2015) and directed the London platform (2016) and further development of the kimospheres (kinetic atmospheres) in 2016-19: documentation of the events can be found also in these pages.
Birringer's new book on Kinetic Atmospheres: Performance and Immersion was completed a few weeks after the 2020 lab and was published by Routledge in late 2021.
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