BUILT TO BLAST (audio documentation)

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BUILT TO BLAST

is a one-on-one performance-situation. A Rendezvous with a room. For about 15 minutes. An intimate encounter of non-human and human, aiming to blur the distinction between those two. Mind-blowing, nerve-racking, seducing. It is fucking educational. For everyone / everything involved.

BUILT TO BLAST is a nut-cracker, a bottle opener of a performance, an implant designed to unveil the being of a room – casting light on questions that we didn’t care or dare to ask. It’s a hardly noticeable apparatus, a gadget from another spacetime mattering, a prosthesis, a true cyborg, a cybernetic organism detached from the human body. It lends a room a voice, agency to speak, to suffer, to love, to crab, to crave, to share, to be. It is speeding up the slowness of things and slowing down the speed of humans to facilitate a meeting somewhere in between. A slow dance speed-date of one matter being and one human being. It is first-hand experience with the other. Challenging for both sides, BUILT TO BLAST dismantles and enforces expectations that none of us knew we had.

The installation has been performed for about 40 individuals in Berlin in 2015 and is since waiting to be implanted in new exciting spaces.

 

CREATION AND REALISATION Marc Philipp Gabriel
MENTORING Antonia Baehr
THANKS TO Frederico O.M., Sunayana Shetty, Verena Sepp, Emily Ranford, Rachell Bo Clark

 

25 MAY 2018 / Kunstraum Vodoo 55 / Berlin

19 APR 2015 / Uferstudios / Berlin

21 MAR 2015 / KMS 145 / Berlin

28 FEB 2015 / HAU 1 / Berlin

27 FEB 2015 / Ballhaus Ost / Berlin

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HZT Berlin

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Listen to full performance.

This is one encouter out of many. For privacy reasons and to respect the intimate space, no video of BUILT TO BLAST is recorded!

TRAILER

Set-up

The performance installation acts as an implant that activates almost any closed room or space (adjacent control room required), an artificial implant that enables a space to take agency, to become a spatial being and to communicate with human beings.

Appliances (provided by the artist, subject to change – varies according to local conditions)
\ ARDUINO-controlled LED installation
\ 6-channel sound implant
\ webcam + micorphone
\ computer running a text-to-speech-engine
\ a swivel armchair
\ dimmable flood lights (optional)

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seat

“… (female voice) How do you feel?

– Good.

Great. Uh, I like that little wind. The warm wind from your nose.

– (whispers) Yes.

It heats my air. It feels really good to have you inside of me.

Do you know why I like you?

– Yeah.. why?

Cause you are soft and I am hard. I like soft things. Do you?

– Yes, me too.

Do you know when you were born?

– Yes.

When?

– In the 60s.

Wow. Nice times.

– And you?

You know what? I am born in every moment.

And actually, so are you!

Do you mind if I change a little?

– No. Go ahead.

[lights off]

Do you feel closer to me now?

-Yes.

I like darkness. And you?

– Yes. Me too. It’s quiet.

(switching to male voice) Kiss me.

Are you able to kiss me?

– No.

Why not?

– I don’t know how.

Try. Come closer.

– Ok. Do you feel it here?

Yeah.

– It’s good?

Very nice.

– I touch you. Do you feel that?

Try to fill me. Connect with me. Yes.

– Yes.

Yes.

– Yes!

Close your eyes and breathe deeply. Inhale. Exhale. Yeah. It’s so good to be part of you. You have a very strong impact on me.

– Yes, good.

Yeah. Do you think I am innocent?

– Yes, of course.

Actually… I am not. What are you made of?

– Sorry?

(switching to female voice) What are you made of?

(switching to male voice) You know, I think we are both made of the same stuff. I am you, you are me. Stardust. No?

– Are you sure?

No.

– (chuckles)

That’s what I think.

– (laughs) Ok.

Let’s celebrate that

– (laughs more)

Imagine!

– Yes.

Let me tell you something.

– Ok.

Imagine. Imagine, if you can…”

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TISCHGESPRÄCH #1

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CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE Katharina Greimel & Marc Philipp Gabriel

Thanks to: Alice Chauchat, Shannon Cooney
Sie verdrehten einander die Köpfe auf Augenhöhe.

THURSDAY 24 APR 2014 / 21:00h // IN ZUCHT / BA Festival / @ Uferstudios Studio 14 / HZT Berlin.

HZT Berlin

SQUZ

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CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE Liselotte Singer & Marc Philipp Gabriel

Weil wir uns gerne haben.
From dance into combat, we play with triggers of different forms of excitement (intimacy, grace, exaltation, fever, violence) that we get caught in and transmit out. As a movement entity we are in a relationship of constant negotiation on physical and social levels. We touch.
Allora ragazzi, are you ready to see those results ?

SUNDAY 27 APR 2014 / 18:00h // IN ZUCHT / BA Festival / @ Uferstudios / HZT Berlin

HZT Berlin

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SHAVE THAT GUMMI (VIDEO DOCUMENTATION)

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Video documentation of the first showing and after talk, recorded at Con Cowan theatre, Johannesburg, 20 FEB 2016:

SHAVE THAT GUMMI is an international choreographic research that unleashes between innumerable poles of difference.

How can we breathe under all the highly charged misconceptions that have been cast onto us in past and present times? Coming from two different continents, we are still chewing on the same piece of gum. F*ck. Being labelled before birth, we strive to move away from preconceived identities, longing for situations that are re-negotiated in every moment. Two bodies flying through their extremities, slurping, spitting, slicing, deflecting and avoiding one another – breathing in as two and exhaling as one.

SHAVE THAT GUMMI is a dance performance duet moving between ornamenting and defacing the human body as an object. A precarious duet of counter-colonialization. A dual player game, a pas-de-deux, a dog fight, a futuristic binary. Two opposites migrating into each other’s territories. SHAVE THAT GUMMI is pulling the audience into a game of projections, stripping multiple layers of conformity off the performing body.

PERFORMANCE & CREATION Kieron Jina & Marc Philipp Gabriel
LIVE SOUND Yogin Sullaphen

SPECIAL THANKS to University of Johannesburg Arts and Culture Centre, Joni Barnard and Xtina Magwaza Iqhwa

SHAVE THAT GUMMI is the outcome of Kieron Jina (South Africa), Marc Philipp Gabriel (Germany) and Yogin Sullaphen (South Africa) working in a 4 week artistic research period at University of Johannesburg Arts & Culture Centre.

SPACE AGENCY

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Voice training for SPACE AGENCY by Fleur Khani

“Space Agency is a choreographic piece for a choir. The performers activate the space around them through text and music. The audience is absorbed in the displacements in the space and the descriptions of houses, rooms, walls, objects, odours, colours, sensations … These spaces of daydreams become lucid through singing, rhythm and continuous spinal movements, until the language starts loosing its meaning and the concrete spaces liquefy again.”… read more

Linhas Imponderáveis

Arte de representar na pele a configuração de um espaço interno com todos os seus acidentes.O corpo enquanto hospedeiro do caos, onde habita? O fenómeno da assimilação/apropriação involuntária das acções envolventes e a observação do processo de gestação das mesmas.

Um trabalho da Rita Vilhena e Raquel Mendes em colaboração com Marc P. Gabriel.

Dec 2013 / Galeria Boavista / Lisbon

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every one everyone

 

Every One Everyone began as a personal process of exploration, a series of studio meetings with people joining me in an experiment: receiving a physical impulse from my body, allowing themselves to be swayed in their perceived craniosacral rhythm. With always more then two people present in each studio encounter, participants were than asked to map their sensation both as observers and performers, leaving traces in varied forms – writing, drawing, speaking, moving etc.

 

Shannon Cooney concept, choreography, performance

Marla Hlady artistic advisor
Igor Dobričić dramaturge
Sandra Blatterer light
Anke Eckardt sound
Heather MacCrimmon costume
Ky Lloyd production manager
Barbara Gstaltmayr PR
Performing Assistants in Berlin:

Katie Dunbar, Stine Frandsen, Marc Philipp Gabriel, Katharina Greimel, Alicia Grant, Susu Grunenberg, Robert Kingsbury, Kunle Kuforiji, Ben Mergelsberg, Philipp Meyer, Helen Rupp, and Claudia Tomasi.

Jörg Antholz graphic artist
Alexa Vachon photographer

Jürgen Török website

everyone.shannoncooney.org

 

 

ZELTEN

Zelten

26 + 27 OCT 2013 // with Jenni Ramsperger / HZT Berlin / @ Uferstudios Studio 14

 

Tanz: Simone Detig, Parwanhe Frei, Susanne Mayer und Annegret Schalke
Musikdramaturgie: Marc P. Gabriel
Produktionsassistenz: Paula Führer
Choreografie: Jenni Ramsperger

Zelten bedeutet unterwegs sein und draußen wohnen, seine Heringe in den Boden stechen, sein Lager im Freien aufschlagen und den Standort jederzeit wechseln zu können. Es bedeutet, sich, das Zelt und die eigene Position in die einen umgebende und sich verändernde Natur einzugliedern. Es bedeutet, das Zuhause unter freiem Himmel zu finden, komme was wolle. 

Die Arbeit Zelten ist eine Reise in die Erinnerungen unserer deutschen Kindheit.

Wo stehen wir zwischen den Stimmen unserer Eltern, den Spuren unserer Großeltern und unserer Realität, als die in den 80ern geborene Generation Y? Generation Why.

Welche Relevanz haben die Begriffe Heimat, Zugehörigkeit und Verortung für uns? Was ist es, das bleibt, wenn wir weggehen? Was kommt? Und was kommt mit uns, wenn wir weggehen?

 

Sie sagten, sie wollten Löwen bändigen gehen, als sie aus Germanien loszogen. Nahe am Herzen, in der Tasche ihres ledernen Brustbeutels, trugen die vier Gefährtinnen Bilder ihrer Heimat: den Christbaum mit echten Bienenwachskerzen, die pädagogisch wertvolle Gute-Nacht-Geschichte, den „Schützt den Regenwald“-Sticker, den letzten Kuchenkrümel und Gedanken an die gerechte Aufteilung sämtlicher Leckereien.

In den Ohren Erinnerungen an den Gesangsverein, an das ordentliche Einkehren nach den Sonntagsfahrten mit Oma und Opa, der exotische Beigeschmack der multikulturellen Patchworkfamilie und die richtige Sitzordnung beim Abendbrot.

Und auf dem Gaumen die Pommes rot-weiß aus dem Freibad und die dazu eingeprägte Melodie einer Sommerwerbung.

HZT Berlin

SMLXL – Uferfenster

AUSUFERN

Gabriel M. Philipps / Marc Philipp Gabriel: SMLXL – Uferfenster
Installation

Why is this place called Uferstudios and what does AUSUFERN mean?
Why can I not see through walls?
What if I could? And if I can, what do I see behind?

Come and see through the walls of Uferstudios! Discover the beautiful riverbanks and meadows of Wedding and observe the local pets’ daily dance routine!

This durational installation is located under the porch roof left of the grand chimney at the very back of the yard.

AUSUFERN 2013

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“Thinking about the frame for this installation, the AUSUFERN festival, which takes the German term Ufer (riverbank) further, I have detected a complete lack of perceivability of the actual riverbank that runs along the site of Uferstudios: from the public courtyard there is no view of the river at all. Only the growing vegetation that overhangs the buildings from behind speak of the notion of close-by nature. My proposal is now to bring the frame, i.e. the river that is name- and border-giving for the site, inside, into the courtyard. In a simple set-up a camera that is attached to the back of the buildings at the river will capture the water stream and the opposite riverbank (Ufer). The image is projected live on the inside of Uferstudios, like a digital window from the courtyard to the riverbank. The projection could be placed on the same place on the wall as the camera is attached on the other side of the wall; but there could also be a subtle shift or a distance of hundreds of metes between the two. For the observer it would be hard to tell if what he sees on the projection is really what he would see through a window. Also angle, focus, colour and distortion of the camera and projector will be filters between the subject and what is staged. There could be a time gap established between video and projection, technically determined or intentionally applied. The wall that is projected on will not be neutrally white but with uneven spots and wearing of paint, distorting the image that is projected. All these uncertainties between the rather unspectacular subject (the riverbank) and the final set-up are an invitation to sharpen one’s perception, look closely and rethink first-moment impulses rather than taking for granted what one is made to see or believe.” MPG

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Gabriel M. Philipps / Marc Philipp Gabriel: SMLXL – Uferfenster
Installation

Warum heißt das hier Uferstudios und wer oder was soll AUSUFERN?
Warum kann ich nicht durch Wände sehen?
Was wäre, wenn doch? Und wenn doch, was liegt dahinter?

Ein Blick durch die Wände der Uferstudios! Ein Ausblick auf die wunderschönen Uferhänge und Wiesen des Weddings! Ein Einblick in die tägliche Tanzpraxis der benachbarten Haustiere!

Diese fortlaufende Installation befindet sich unter dem Vordach links vom großen Schornstein am äußersten Ende des Hofs.

AUSUFERN 2013

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HYMNEN

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MOVE OP: HYMNEN

Eine performative Arbeit zur Frage der Nationsbil

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– MOVE OP – Festival für europäisches Musiktheater unter prekären Bedingungen

Die Studenten des Studiengangs Tanz, Kontext, Choreografie des HZT Berlin widmen sich in einer performativer Arbeit der Frage, wie wir in einem Raum aus
vielen Nationen mit vielen Individuen koexistieren können. Grundlage dafür bildet ein akustischer Portrait: die Komposition HYMNEN (1966-67) von Karlheinz Stockhausen. Mit HYMNEN versuchte er viele Nationalhymnen zu einem Werk zu vereinen mit dem Ziel, „.. die Einheit der Völker und Nationen in einer harmonischen Menschenfamilie als musikalische Vision erlebbar zu machen”. Aber wie portraitieren wir heute die Welt, in der wir leben (möchten)? Und wer sind WIR?

Im goldenen Saal des Heimathafen Neukölln werden die Karten der Nationsbildung neu gemischt. Neue Gemeinschaften werden angekündigt. Eigentum und Territorium werden verabschiedet oder neu besiedelt. Werden wir je unsere Nachbarn wählen können? Und gibt es eine gemeinschaftsschaffende Musik ohne Nostalgie?

Von und mit: Philipp Enders, Marc Philipp Gabriel, Katharina Greimel, Martin Hansen, Ellinor Kristina Ljungkvist, Ania Nowak, Iva Radic,
Danilo de Oliveira Viana, Nir Vidan, Kasia Wolinska
Konzeptuelle Betreuung: Alain Franco, Cecilie Ullerup SchmidtIn Kooperation mit dem Hochschulübergreifenden Zentrum Tanz Berlin.

24 AUG 2013 // with HZT Berlin / @ HEIMATHAFEN NEUKÖLLN

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