Participants

  • A performance artist, director and pyrotechnician. In her artistic practice she concentrates on the development of interdisciplinary scenic and performative work at the intersection of sound and music, media arts, dance and space. Lea is especially interested in the concert format and questions around the conditions and conventions of performance situations. The examination of the relationship between art and music is also thematized spatially as her works are produced and performed in different forums between the white cube, black box and in the context of new music. Her visual and acoustic material is equally versatile and indeterminate, moving between pyrotechnical elements and the soundscape of a skate hall. Lea´s research project is dedicated to the performative relationship of fireworks and music. 

  • A filmmaker and photographic artist from China who studied Film and Screen Media at Queensland College of Art and Film Curating at the London Consortium. She is interested in the complex relationship between history, memory, and feeling; and how they express themselves under censorship. Her research explores the photo-filmic approach and oral history method as an integral part of artistic practice.

  • A director, actor, dancer, and performer from Burkina Faso. He has created numerous shows and participated in many artistic projects. He is continuously questioning what form of theatre could correspond to a population with different languages and traditions—as is the case in his home country and elsewhere in Africa—and how to decolonize theatre in Africa, which is strongly influenced by the classical form inherited through colonisation. In his artistic practice and research, he is perpetually in search of communion between the actor, the audience, and the stage in an exorcism of magic, movement, gestures, objects, sounds, unusual landscapes, and lighting combined with rituals to form a poetic language superior to words—an inclusive form of theatre that puts the local population at the centre of its action and can be used to subvert thought, the logic of artistic practice, and the way the world works.

  • An artist, filmmaker and filmworker with a background in anthropology. She is working with video, sound, and performance and drawn to artistic research and artists’ moving image as a personal practice with room for experimentation and enquiry into the audiovisual, temporal and rhythmic aspects of social realities. By alternating between questions of what is happening? and how does it feel? she explores the intensities of presence in films and movement practices. Most recently she has developed an interest in the spatial and experiential aspects of expanded cinema. Kolka has previously worked as a cinematographer and editor of documentaries, narrative features, and artists’ films. She studied anthropology at Tallinn University in Estonia and documentary and experimental film at The New School in New York.

  • A dancer, choreographer and musician, working in the context of expanded choreography, performance and contemporary dance. Her art practice involves the use of voice and sculptural elements and is influenced by interests in philosophy, sociopolitical and ecological transformation and healing techniques. In her research she focusses on „monstrous“ choreographies as a subversive practice.