Karin Pauer
AVA
In her performance AVA, choreographer Karin Pauer intensifies her pursuit of the complicated realities of the Anthropocene by making them more tangible through embodied collective experiences. In collaboration with the visual artist Eva Engelbert, the musician Rozi Mákó and the lighting designer Sveta Schwin, Pauer invites the audience into a space in which the lines between aquatic and terrestric life and between air and water blur and dissolve.
AVA traces connections between the performer’s body and the body of water that is the ocean, exploring narratives of how hyperacidity and pollution change them both equally. The piece is informed by a personal experience impeding the artist’s access to her own voice and challenging her to seek reconnection with her inner power and voice. How can we learn to listen to the voice of the sea?
Through a flowing web of relationships between human and ocean, the performance attunes us to our aqueous origins and our ancestors’ memories and reminds us that our bodies – that consist mostly of water – are deeply entangled with the oceans of the world. AVA is not just an observation; it dives right into the rhythms of the ocean and calls upon us to transform our relationship with the global waters that form our mutual future.
‘With experiencing comes caring and with caring there’s hope.’ Sylvia Earle
AVA is part of the practices for potential futures work cycle.
Karin Pauer is a performer/choreographer based in Vienna. All her pieces are informed by exploring relationships, the in-between, empathy and togetherness. She negotiates these terms by combining embodied choreographic practices with language, visual art and live music. In 2008, she finished her bachelor’s degree (BA) in choreography at the ArtEZ Institute of Arts in Arnheim, the Netherlands. Since then, she has worked with choreographers, theatre directors, filmmakers and visual artists such as Doris Uhlich, Random Scream/Davis Freeman, Mike O’Connor, Maureen Kägi, Veronika Franz, Katrin Hornek and Aldo Giannotti. Since 2015, she has regularly co-operated with the Austrian-based dance company Liquid Loft/Chris Haring. Karin Pauer received the danceWEB scholarship in 2009 and the TURBO residency in 2012, both as part of the ImPulsTanz festival. In 2018, she was awarded the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office’s START scholarship. In 2020, she was nominated for the EU-wide choreography platform Creative Crossroads as part of Life Long Burning. Her own creations have been presented, among other places, at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, Tanzquartier Wien, donaufestival, brut Wien, the Wiener Festwochen, the MAMbo Museum in Bologna and various international festivals.
Pressestimmen
"To the oceanic, spherical, sparkling and thunderous sound of Rozi Mákó and in Sveta Schwin's eerie lighting design, Karin Pauer moves as if driven by the gusts and shear winds of our existential crises."
Helmut Ploebst (Der Standard)
Credits
Artistic direction, performance and choreography Karin Pauer Live Sound Rozi Mákó Space Eva Engelbert Lighting design Sveta Schwin Text dramaturgy Anna Mendelssohn Conversation partners Arttu Palmio & Aldo Giannotti Production management mollusca productions
A co-production of Kunstverein ARGO / Karin Pauer and brut Wien. Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA7) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
Dates & Tickets
December 2024
Choose your price category: € 22/€ 18/€ 14
Choose your price category: € 22/€ 18/€ 14 * Followed by an Artist Talk. Moderation: Flori Gugger
Choose your price category: € 22/€ 18/€ 14
Choose your price category: € 22/€ 18/€ 14
brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
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Info
Please note: This performance uses blinding light and loud music.
Following the performance on Thursday, December 12, there will be an artist talk. Moderation: Flori Gugger
Downloads
Abendprogramm_Karin_Pauer_AVA (PDF)
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