Collaboration with Jess Mac and Zoe Kreye.
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Unexpected situations in public space. Questioning behavioural consensus. Exploring architectural affordances.
Participatory performance-choir as Process Institute at the Haus of World Cultures, Berlin.
We were commissioned to design and offer 4 collective tasks for all the members of the 4 Über Lebenskunst Klubs.
Making Noise happened on the #4 Klub, on May 31st. Participants were divided in 4 groups and each of the artists of the collective directed one section. Noises, words, sentences and questions overlap creating a sound piece narrative about social change, sustainability and media panic.
12.05.2011, 16:00 – 20:00 hours, Über Lebenskunst.Klub
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2011
Collective task #2 by Process Institute at Über Lebenskunst Klub, HKW, Berlin 07.04.11:
Stay together and discover the potential of your environment!
Collective task #1 at Über Lebenskunst Klub , HKW, Berlin 10.03.11:
How can we celebrate the reciprocal dependency of being?
ÜBER LEBENSKUNST created its Klub at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. It is a platform that brings together numerous people who actively work for a sustainable world. The latest positions and strategies for the art of sustainable living (ÜBER LEBENSKUNST) are brought together there at the interface between art and cultural production, fashion, day-to-day research, civic involvement, architecture, sustainable design, urban gardening, environmental sciences, political activism and urban planning.
In this framework, Process Institute developed the 4 “Gemeinschaftsaufgaben” (collective tasks). These participatory tasks dealt with the motto of each Klub and offer challenges or unconventional goals to be done by the Klub participants. By this they experience physically and emotionally some of the discussed issues.
For Klub 1 Process Institute developed the Lebensmonument/Monument to living together with the Klub members. How can something as a monument, static, dead and imposing in its definition be celebrating life? The participants became the structure of a living choreographed organism in which everybody was involved, interconnected and interdependent to make things happen.
As part of Conversations in Silence (a five month research project with Bauhaus University MFA alumni and Kenyan artists hosted by the Goethe Institute in Nairobi 01.10.10-28.02.11) “Irene Izquierdo (ESP) worked site-specifically, choosing to commemorate a space rather than a time. Over the two weeks before the exhibition Irene visited Hilton Square daily, observing the way people interacted and did ‘business’. Perceiving this space as playing a unique role within the city, she orchestrated the performance ‘Celebrating Hilton Square’. This featured a selection of individuals from the square who honored the space in various ways including poems, songs and written texts. These have been collected in a small booklet which serves as a memory to the event, and a commemoration of the space.” Sam Hopkins
The work starts with favoring and helping perpetrate the intangible cultural heritage of the square by using the same strategies of making business and networking that occur there.
Site-specific work as part of the Euro-Latin Performance Project in the Freies Museum, Berlin.
At the beginning of one night of performances at the Freies Museum, I noticed a dead fly on one windowsill. At the end of the evening I came back to the same place and to my surprise the dead fly was not there any more. I found it on the floor away from its original location. How could this have happened? I contemplated the next hypothesis: The dead fly came back to life for an instant to die again watching a performance during that evening.
Considering this, I felt responsible for the other dead insects of the room that would witness more performances the next day. Was it something desirable to resurrect for a moment to die again? Was art able of such a thing? I searched for all the dead creatures in that space, a total of 19, and planned on asking these questions to the audience the next evening.
At the beginning of the next performance evening, I distributed all dead insects in zip-log bags among the audience together with a form. I was giving them the responsibility of deciding if the insect should stay in that space or somewhere else, taking in consideration the resurrection hypothesis. After taking action they were asked to return the filled-in form in which they had to explain what they chose to do and why.
As part of the Euro-Latin Performance Project, Process Institute organized a lottery of services. To participate each person took a numbered photocopied bill and wrote a service he or she could provide to another person in between 3 sec and 3 min. This service had to take place inside of the first floor of the Freies Museum and according to his or her value system, it should be worth 10 €.
The total jackpot was 210 € in services and the winner was the photographer of the project: Jule Frommelt.
Web of the Euro-Latin Performance Project. Documentation.
As part of the Euro-Latin Performance Project, curated by Harm Lux, Process Institute organized a collective 1h performance in 1 wagon of the circular line city train, number S 42. Each participant was given an individual task, some more spectacular, some totally subtle: Reading a financial magazine out loud, checking the advertisement of different supermarkets, doing accounting, trying to sell different objects contained in a tin-box, holding a “how-to value” flag, observe and write notes about the actions, distribute and play with photocopied money… After 1 hour performing (1h is the time the train needs to close the circle) the participants discussed in a cafe about their actions / feelings /peoples’ reactions. We decided to do this in order to keep the process of our improvisational experiments as flexible and open as possible.
