Dominik Grünbühel & Charlotta Ruth with Jenni-Elina von Bagh, Anna Öberg und PETER

Living Documents I–V (ABGESAGT)

with Jenni-Elina von Bagh, Anna Öberg and PETER

brut at Kempelenpark
Performance / installation loop Austrian premiere in English
imagetanz 2020
{documentation} {transience} {loop}

Living Documents I–V by Dominik Grünbühel and Charlotta Ruth is about the counter-intuitive but still widely held desire to document dance and performance. In one round tour, the audience gets to visit five different choreographic installations in live loops, thus experiencing the seemingly prosaic act of documentation as a vivid process of communication. Whether you choose to re-watch one of the five performances again and again or to explore the whole variety of artistic approaches, you will be able to grasp the tension between the transient moment of the here and now and the idea of documentation and reproducibility.

, © Baio/Romberg/Sakurai

from left to right: Anna Öberg, Jenni-Elina von Bagh, Dominik Grünbühel, PETER, Charlotta Ruth – Living Documents I - V

© Maiko Sakurai Karner
, © Luke Baio

Anna Öberg for Living Documents I - V

, © Johannes Burström

Charlotta Ruth for Living Documents I - V

, © Walter Ruth

Dominik Grünbühl for Living Documents I - V 

, © Johannes Burström

Jenni-Elina von Bagh for Living Documents I - V 

, © Sofia Romberg

Jenni- Elina von Bugh for Living Documents I - V

, © Charlotta Ruth

PETER – Living Documents I - V 

, © Baio/Romberg/Burström

Charlotta Ruth – Living Documents I – V

, © Baio/Romberg/Burström

Anna Öberg – Living Documents I – V

, © Baio/Romberg/Burström

Dominik Grünbühl – Living Documents I – V

, © Baio/Romberg/Burström

Jenni- Elina von Bugh – Living Documents I – V

, © Baio/Romberg/Burström

Peter Mills – Living Documents I – V

INFO: CANCELLED: More information about program changes in connection with Covid-19 here

Anna Öberg is concerned with the interpretation and tradition of an old Swedish dance called polska, using it as a basis for thoughts about half-truths and pseudohistory. Charlotta Ruth mingles what happens in the present with what has already happened in the past. She conducts her own forensics using her project report and blue adhesive tape. Dominik Grünbühel doubles his own body and pauses for a moment in his one-man concert machine. Jenni-Elina von Bagh melts props, anatomy and her life archive and observes the synthesis through a prism of futures. PETER calls for a (market)place of activities, where, in a moment of memory, all investments are reset.

The Living Documents project was initiated by Charlotta Ruth and Dominik Grünbühel. Dominik Grünbühel’s works have been presented at the Vienna Festival, at Tanzquartier Wien and at WUK. Ohne Nix (devised with Luke Baio) was presented as part of Aerowaves Spring Forward 2017. It is the artist’s objective to manufacture all the means for his highly unpretentious work himself. Grünbühel is also the bass player of Nifty’s, an award-winning nu klezmer band. Charlotta Ruth’s work often plays on time and perception in the fields of choreography, game design and artistic research. Her pieces are typically conceived as site-specific, the sites including stages, galleries, the public space or the internet. Ruth’s pieces have been presented at such venues as Tanzquartier Wien, WUK, Brunnenpassage, brut, MDT Stockholm and Dansens Hus Stockholm.

Credits

Concept and direction Charlotta Ruth & Dominik Grünbühel Choreography and performance Anna Öberg, Jenni-Elina von Bagh, PETER, Charlotta Ruth, Dominik Grünbühel Set design Luke Baio, Sofia Romberg Sound Johannes Burström Programming Johanna Pfabigan, Johannes Burström Essay Vendela Grundell Graphic design Maiko Sakurai Karner Production Ruth&Grünbühel

Thanks to Anna Lindblad, Anders Löfberg, Lisa Schåman, Pontus Petterson, Anna Vnuk, Julian Vogel, Sarah Blumenfeld, Michael Bruckner, Ingrid Cogne, Georg Eckmayr, Anne Juren, Alessandra Kopp, Andreas Strauss, Elizabeth Ward, Eva Wallensteiner, SITE Sweden, Familjebostäder AB, Ulrika Majs & Pertti Bengtsson, Ruth & Ferdinand Mayrhofer Grünbühel, Walter Ruth.

With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Art and Culture Department of the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office, the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and Nordic-Baltic Mobility Funding.

Dates & Tickets

March 2020

Sat. 14.03.2020, 14:00 - 17:00
Cancelled

Sun. 15.03.2020, 14:00 - 17:00
Cancelled

brut at Kempelenpark
Quellenstraße 2C, 1100 Vienna

Info

INFO: CANCELLED: More information about program changes in connection with Covid-19 here

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