This weekend

HIDROPICOUNO
this Sunday, 5th July 2009, 22.00 h

HIDROPICODOS
Monday, 6th July 2009, 20.00 h

in Sala ESCALADA
Remedios de Escalada de San Martin 332
(one block from Juan B. Justo y Warnes)
Chacarita


Reservation: 15 69609373 or via email to heinrich.sara@googlemail.com

Direction: Oliver Liebig - oli.liebig@gmx.net

Water collides with body

„The offence, physically directed against the waters, indemnifies the reaction of the violent water nevertheless; […] the offence ranges from lashing to simple harassment. The flap of a fingernail, the lightest speckle can arouse the fury of the water.” (Gaston Bachelard)

Every time, an element feels disturbed, its fury becomes universal: the tempest blares, lightning explodes, hail crackles, water floods the soil. Water, element more femine and uniform than fire. Water, most constant element which typifies itself trough the most secret, simplest, most simplifying human forces. With its bitter-fresh taste, it forces its space into the human drama. The structure of the human being incorporates materials of all consistencies, which it later despises. The eroticism of hate, of love, defines the body in its cruel existence. Blustering the body rebels, chains around his feet, against the invincible nature. Crashing against our body, water spreads in every groove and levels us in our pretensions. The crucial liquid, frozen or boiling, strikes the body and jerks us into mutual dependency. We play with the volatile force, it plays with us. Violence, ferocity attacks when one crosses the borderline, provoking the invincible power. The crash of flesh and wave culminates in a battle that cannot be won. One wrestles with the other, alone this battle is lost from its beginning. We exercise violence, the indispensable vein turns into the enemy of human breath. Misdealing this most curious, most dangerous, nevertheless deserving victory, we recognize the triple syntax of life, death and water. Life and death are the most desperate, agony is infinite.

Water can be vital, but also violent.

Relations like the antagonist position of ice/water and fire, two conditions of the same material, properties of ongoing movement, dying in every moment, never stopping, circulating, flowing and melting in a persistent, sustained and continuing form of death.

Basics

In the focus of the work there is the physical aspect. It will be combinded with sensorial interaction. Tactile moments will be created for overcoming bounderies between performer and audience. The body will be utilized for changing the properties of the applied material.

The performance group is completed.

An interdisciplinary group was formed. In the project are working togheter painters, actors, visual artists, designers, musicians, dancers...
Aesthetic interaction is announced, which becomes describable as a group forming process as well as a intercultural communication action.

First meeting Monday, 30.03.2009, 17.30h, at the gallery "El Aleph"

Today the first meeting will take place. Until know there is a mixture of participants: actors, painters, dancers, philosophers, musicians...

It is still possible to join the performance-group, subscribe to performanceproject@public-files.de.

The information know has reached the University of Fine Arts and the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte.

The information is being spreaded at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Faculdad de Filosofía y Letras.

Coming up next days in the Faculdad de Bellas Artes and more locations...

Progress is rolling.

Participants wanted NOW!

The project is now looking for participants who are interested to be part of an art experiment situated in intercultural context in Buenos Aires.

It´s possible to join know under performanceproject@public-files.de .

First informations on the project

During a workshop aesthetic acting shall overcome boundaries of existing structures in science and art. The background shall be inter-cultural acting.

The aim is to experience cultural predispositions through practical artistic work. Emotional, social, physical, mental and moral aspects shall be made accessible and communicable.

Cultural patterns shall be made experiencable, questioned critically and be reviewed on their current structure forming valences. Aesthetic interaction is announced, which becomes describable as a group forming process as well as a intercultural communication action.

All participants together shall iniciate the concept and work on it.

The exposure of the sensual and corporal moment is essential for the exploration as a base for intercultural understanding.

Finally a performance shall be realized. On two evenings live-action shall happen in an adequate location and in context with the experience made so far.