works
among the multitude
David Weber-Krebs transforms the theatre space into a cinema. A man is wandering around in an open land scape. He is in exile, an alien, looking for something in the wrong place, in the wrong way. When he finally enters a forest we are brought back to the social space of theatre. The film that was uniting the spectators […]
performance
(Robert Morris revisited)
What is it with the spectacular? To find out, one as to go back to a historic period in modern art, that was seemingly defined by an unparalleled will to be anything but spectacular: the minimalism of the 1960s. Of course, doing little can be quite unspectacular, but doing very little is […]
erschauern/begreifen
a lecture-performance by Jan-Philipp Possmann and David Weber-Krebs
Enjoying art can be an ambivalent experience. Often we get carried away by works of art by whose influence we fear or reject. This experience arises from the politics of communication. Artistic practice should not stop to question our political and aesthetic convictions. Art is created by the […]
conversation (in the woods)
Conversation (in the woods)
miniature
Miniature is a collaboration with german artist Alexander Schellow.
Miniature is a 10 minutes lasting proces for one spectator.
from march 21 to march 29, 2009. Miniature will be presented at deappel, arts center as a semi-secret event.
for any information please contact de appel at
t 020 6255651
info@deappel.nl
previous versions
2006
6, 7 september - steirischer herbst (graz) , theater […]
the words Jonathan said
For more than twenty-five years the Benedictine monk Jonathan has suffered from a very special kind of epilepsy. Doctors now call his disease ‘prophesia’: to suffer from spells of prophecy. At first his case only raised interest within the medical community. Later it even caught the attention of some secret services.
The story of brother Jonathan […]
fade out
Fade Out starts exactly where other stories end. By manipulating a specific trope or mechanism of time based arts, it reverses the narrative logic and turns the end of a story into an epic of loss and longing that continuously balances on the borders of perception and disappearance.
Fade Out is a minimalist work, one that […]
this performance
this performance stages a performative poem creating ever new expectations through a massive amount of announcements. However each announcement confirms the almost infinite variety of possibilities and increases the longing for salvation in an uncertain future. Apparently, nothing happens on the empty stage. And still, the space develops its own life. The projections and expectations […]
sacre
For this approach to Le Sacre du printemps the choice was to apprehend the church as sacred space. According to the religion theorist Mircea Eliade, the sacred space bears witness to a heterogeneous vision of the world, where sacred and profane interact with each other, the sacred transcending the profane by giving it meaning […]
the consequence of infinite endings
A process wherein a movement slowly, irremediably heads towards its end, or where an object becomes smaller and smaller until it navigates at the verge of perception and finally vanishes away. This phenomenon serves as a manifestation of the experience of the Sublime in contemporary art forms.
“The consequence of infinite endings” is a lecture-performance that […]
in a land
In a land is a performance for a group of people. It brings us back to the core of theatre. A group of people is standing on stage. They are watching at the spectators and the spectators are looking at them. In a land portrays some 40 people. Through them it portrays the society they […]