sonic performance art piece for a couple
“He Wolf / She Man” is an intimate sonic performance art piece for a couple. Through a chain of technical-alchemistic bodily procedures, a couple modifies each other's appearance. Femininity and masculinity make place for a range of techno-fetishistic gender images. This piece has been evolving over the years to explore current post-romantic terrains. Fragility, antagonism, intimacy, care and functional brutality come together in this psychogeography of human desires and anxieties between two individuals.
previously shown:
2020
Theater im Delphi, Berlin Art Week
2019
Performing Arts Festival
Alte Münze, basement, Berlin
(co-produced by Alte Münze)
2018
BAM! Berliner Festival für aktuelles Musiktheater
Acker Stadt Palast, basement, Berlin
Fleetinsel Gallery Tour
Fleetstreet theater, Hamburg
2017
former butcher shop, basement, Mareschstraße, Berlin
Open Studios
AADK, Centro Negra, Blanca (Spain)
responses:
“...an experiment inside of an experiment which touches on the need for - and fear of - human transformation. The work is visually, aurally, and atmospherically stunning and continually surprising, simultaneously poetic and disturbing, engaging in every way.”
Brina Stinehelfer, Artistic Director of former silent film cinema Delphi, Berlin
“...the performance opens up exciting, never tangible fields of tension between the performers, the domestic environment, medical sterility and audio-technological elements. The audience is free to walk through this experiential space, in which the performers manage to keep impressively calm and present [...].”
Steffi Kowalski, Artistic Director of Space/Time, Platform for Video and Performance Art, Berlin
“...an immersive experience that raises questions about identity, human relationships, evolution and artistic processes.”
Elena Azzadin, Director of the Residency Programme at AADK, Blanca (Spain)
Concept & Performance: Katharina Haverich & Christopher Hotti Böhm
Programming: Holger Heißmeyer