COMET_a performative walk
Premiere: 25. & 26. Juni 2021
Exploration 2 with Lena Schattenberg
In COMET (beCOME a parT of) three top-class performers (Charlie Prince from Lebanon, Cary Shiu from China and Lena Schattenberg from Germany) are playing in the rural region of Franconia. Like an alien or a comet from another dimension, they examine the gap between personal feelings and external appearance. Sebastian Autenrieth and Barbara Bess accompany this performative exploration of the landscape through the eye of the photo and video camera. Sculptural costume designs (Bettina Mileta) make different body parts of the dancers visible or invisible. Enlarged or lengthened outgrowths of the body encroach on the space, deposit themselves and move the space between reality and fiction. The resulting image and movement material is collected in the research process and later transferred to different structures and materials. It forms the visual basis for the final multimedia performance. Finally, Lars Fischer will use improvised sound collages to interweave the life performance of the dancers as well as the surreal imagery of the projections and moving objects at the location of the installation to create an atmospherically dense field. The artistic and visual means of the performances from the first two parts of the project should be additional rooms in the performative installation. From COMING CLOSER (2019) we would like to present Sebastian Autenrieth's photographs on canvas. BECOMING (2020) is to be shown as a film (40 minutes).
Artistic director: Barbara Bess
Assistance: Eva Euwe
Performer: Cary Shiu, Lena Schattenberg, Charlie Prince, Fabian Maria Riess,
Barbara Bess
Costume: Bettina Mileta
Sound: Lars Fischer
Photography: Sebastian Autenrieth
