Claudia Bosse
ihr beider INNERES
both their INSIDES
In the run-up to her performance ORACLE and SACRIFICE in the woods, which is going to premiere in Vienna’s Prater woods on the 8th of May, 2022, choreographer/director Claudia Bosse will present a video installation at brut nordwest. The video is part of her ORACLE and SACRIFICE series, in which the significance of sacrifice and the practice of oracles since the Antiquity are examined along with communication with the elements and other beings.
she has a heavy beef liver beef tied to her body
she shifts her places
to her back to her chest to her head her belly her shoulder
a potential body carrying insides on its outside
she expands her insides
she touches her new organ
she gropes surmises sees feels
she rubs it on trees grasses trunks
she feels the tree with her organ carried to the outside
it becomes both their organ
both their INSIDES
through their shared liver
their INSIDES become a shared one through their shared organ
one organ
she sheds her organ and throws it in the dragon’s mouth
The video installation by Claudia Bosse of ihr beider INNERES can be seen from May 5th to 8th, 2022 from 9:00 p.m. in the courtyard of brut nordwest.
Claudia Bosse lives in Vienna and Berlin and works as a director, choreographer, artist, and head of theatercombinat. Her works negotiate forms of violence, history, and concrete utopias. She describes her space-consuming choreographies, in which she interweaves myths, rituals, texts, and documents with bodies, language, objects, and choruses to create her pieces, as ‘art in a temporary community’. Inside and outside of Europe, in museums, architectures, theatres, landscapes, and urban spaces, Claudia Bosse devises site-specific works and interventions. She is currently working on commune 1-73 with 73 fragments on the Paris Commune of 1871 and on her four-year project ORGAN/ismus poetiken der relation. Her most recent works include ORACLE and SACRIFICE 1 oder die evakuierung der gegenwart at Tanzquartier Wien and FFT Düsseldorf, and the last IDEAL PARADISE in Jakarta, which also featured at Deutsche Tanzplattform in Essen. www.theatercombinat.com
Pressestimmen
"Claudia Bosse's works create transitional spaces between installation, choreography, experimental theatre, social rituals and forms of assembly, collective and individual speech acts." (skug)
"The collective theatercombinat, founded by director Claudia Bosse, is known for works that go beyond conventional stage settings. With their performances, they usually open up venues remote from the theatre in an unconventional way." (Wiener Zeitung)
Credits
Video Claudia Bosse Camera/post-production Markus Gradwohl Production management Dagmar Tröstler
A co-operation between theatercombinat and brut Wien. theatercombinat is funded through a 4-year support programme of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport as part of Neustart-Kultur.
Dates & Tickets
The video installation by Claudia Bosse of ihr beider INNERES can be seen from May 5th to 8th, 2022 from 9:00 p.m. in the courtyard of brut nordwest.
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Please note:
The ancient practice of "liver inspection" - a form of divination from sacrificial material - plays a central role in ORACLE and SACRIFICE in the woods. In this context, animal organs are part of the performance and video installation at certain points.
May 2022
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brut nordwest – Courtyard
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Wien
Downloads
Evening programme ihr beider INNERES (PDF)