Magazine

Let's talk about brut

Save the date – brut season starts from October 1st

with toxic dreams, Sara Lanner, Lau Lukkarila, Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir, Gin Müller & Denice Bourbon, Oleg Soulimenko, Doris Uhlich, Simon Mayer, Willi Dorner, Potpourri, Georg Blaschke & Jan Machacek, Florian Malzacher & The Art of Assembly, and many more

New Art on ... line

Jan Machacek & Oliver Stotz – EWIGE 80er

NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG EWIGE 80er is a performative video that targets a time when fear of a nuclear catastrophe grew and in which a conservative backlash formed after the optimistic mood of the 1960s and 70s in the capitalist West. Jan Machacek and Oliver Stotz bring that time to life and ask what connects the spirit of the 80s with our society today.

New Art on ... line

Inge Gappmaier – protect. there is no wind in geometrical worlds

NEW ART ON LINE ... ALL SUMMER LONG: In her dance piece protect., Inge Gappmaier creates a hypnotic atmosphere full of suspense by staging a duet with herself. Accompanied by an intensely uncanny soundscape, she stages questions regarding the isolated, narcissist self and its reflection in the digital world. (VIDEO)

Podcast

New Art on Air – Episode 4 feat. Gerhild Steinbuch

The Austrian author and dramaturge heads the Institute for Language Arts (Creative Writing) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and is co-founder of the Freundliche Mitte and Nazis & Goldmund / Hydra collective. She talks to brut's artistic director Kira Kirsch about writing for the stage, the challenge of running a university institute, working in a collective and Austrian trash tv.

imagetanz New Art on ... line

imagetanz 2021 Julia Müllner – gathering bacteria in my carrier bag

NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: Julia Müllner’s performance is centred around the process of fermentation, a way of microbial transformation and preservation. While microbes negotiate their symbiotic long-term relationships, tentacular dances of a romancing mite become intertwined with costume textures and pulsate performatively while squinting to the rhythm created by sound artist Christa Wall. (VIDEO)

brut Tipp

K3 Residency Programme 2022/2023 – Call for applications

K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg provides three paid eight-month residencies per season to choreographers, who are currently at the beginning of their career and have produced some choreographic work of their own. The residency begins in August and runs until April of the following year. The residency includes mentoring and dramaturgical, technical, and production related support. It moreover links the projects proposed by the choreographers in residence closely to the various other on-going programs of K3.

New Art on ... line

Alex Franz Zehetbauer – AyH

NEW ART ON...LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: Beginning with an interest in spirals, AyH is a sonic experiment guided by the work and methods of the painter and mystic Hilma af Klint. It is a concert of acoustic paintings composed by several non-human musicians in collaboration with Alex Franz Zehetbauer and Christian Schröder. (VIDEO)

New Art on ... line

Karin Pauer & Aldo Giannotti – THE SCORE

NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: Dance meets visual art in THE SCORE. Projected onto the floor, the minimalist black-and-white drawings by artist Aldo Giannotti create a choreographic score and movement guide. Karin Pauer, known among other things from her work in the performance company Liquid Loft, designs an artistic and social field for experimentation between art and choreography, joined by dancers Lau Lukkarila and Arttu Palmio. (VIDEO)

New Art on ... line

Costas Kekis – Bounce

NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: "Bounce" is a performative ritual of personal and collective repair. The group of five performers work through shared sensorial physical practices of emotional resilience, driven by the need to care, cure, withstand and thrive.

New Art on ... line

Oleg Soulimenko & Jasmin Hoffer – BEAUTY OF MESS TRASH AND UNKNOWN DESIRES

NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: Today, in the Anthropocene, there seems to be nothing left untouched by humans. Dwindling species, thawing permafrost, landscapes of toxic trash: human impact appears all-encompassing. But the reverse is also true: nothing we get in touch with leaves us unchanged. (VIDEO)

New Art on ... line

Claire Lefèvre – peachfuzz

NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: In peachfuzz Claire Lefèvre embraces Radical Softness as a performance strategy and a form of resistance. This piece is a celebration of tenderness and vulnerability, a choreographic caress, a care practice, and a warm invitation to relax your jaw and let your shoulders melt. (VIDEO)

New Art on ... line

Frans Poelstra – this body of stories. the lockdown version

NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: In this video, Frans Poelstra tells the story of how he became a performer and dancer. For those who couldn't attend our last Sunday Screening, his entertaining story is now available online.

imagetanz New Art on ... line

Agnes Schneidewind, Johanna Nielson & Marina Poleukhina – eleven. each print in the mud fills with honey

NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: Three female artists jump from a (sur)face and delve into the exciting worlds of Tarot: In eleven. each print in the mud fills with honey, Agnes Schneidewind, Johanna Nielson and Marina Poleukhina draw inspiration from one of the trump cards, reading into it with all their senses and sentiments, including the subconscious and irrational ones. They dance, they draw, and they interact with a number of different objects in permanent circulation. (VIDEO)

Podcast

New Art on Air – Episode 3 feat. Christophe Slagmuylder

What is it like to create an international theater festival during a global pandemic? Kira Kirsch and Christophe Slagmuylder talk about his career, transformative experiences and his definition of a good theater festival. The conversation revolves around contemporary performing arts in Brussels in the 80ies and how to take care of oneself in a stressful job by hiking in the wild nature.

New Art on ... line

Malika Fankha – AWOL. LAVA

The third music video in the series "AWOL" by Malika Fankha is online!

brut Tipp

STANDARD plus E-Paper Abonnement

brut nordwest

THIS PLACE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK: Art in public space by Frida Robles and Lasse Mouritzen

On May 10th, the installation "THIS PLACE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK" by the artists Frida Robles and Lasse Mouritzen opened at the back of brut nordwest. The urban space with the new artwork can be visited until May 2022.

New Art on ... line

Object trouvé with Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir – AIRY MATTERS

Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir talks about the book The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger by Luce Irigaray that plays an important role in creating her upcoming project AIRY MATTERS, which will be presented at brut nordwest in autumn 2021.

Let's talk about brut

FREISCHWIMMEN – Platform for performance and theatre

FREISCHWIMMEN is an international exchange and production platform for young groups and artists* from theatre and performance. It is supported by brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf, Gessnerallee Zürich, HochX München, LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig, Schwankhalle Bremen, Sophiensæle Berlin, and Theater Rampe Stuttgart.

New Art on ... line

Malika Fankha – AWOL. ODE

The new music video "AWOL. ODE" by Malika Fankha is out now!

brut nordwest

Looks like it has begun V – Center for the independent theater, dance and performance scene

On Monday, April 19, the new brut nordwest venue and the planned center for the independent theater, dance and performance scene were presented to the media by Executive City Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Science Veronica Kaup-Hasler and brut director Kira Kirsch – due to covid-19 in a small group of persons. We collect videos and media reactions to the appointment here – enjoy reading!

Let's talk about brut

Art Work brut

Our current poster subjects by photographer Kanghee Kim combine magical moments from everyday life with modern surrealism.

imagetanz

Florian Malzacher – Theater als Versammlung

"The Art of Assembly" ist eine neue brut-Reihe, in der Autor und Dramaturg Florian Malzacher mit wechselnden Gäst*innen aus Kunst, Politik und Gesellschaft über politisches Theater diskutiert. Anlässlich der dritten Ausgabe mit den Gäst*innen mit Jodi Dean (Politikwissenschaftlerin, New York) und Jonas Staal (Künstler, Athen/Rotterdam), die im Rahmen des imagetanz Festivals im März 2021 präsentiert wird, veröffentlicht brut im online Magazin einen Text von Florian Malzacher zum Thema „Theater als Versammlung“.