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  • Synchronstimme, geh runter

    Synchronstimme, geh runter

    Inside Z COMMON GROUND the text collage “Synchronstimme, geh runter” can be discovered on the floor of the basement ramp:

    When you are walking backwards and you scroll and you think you are reading but you are really just scrolling, the only thing close to your body is the phone.

    Photo: Luis Carr

    Photo: Campos Viola Photography

    Photo: Lea Wilsdorf

    Text collage, handwriting on ramp /Z common ground Munich 2019

    2.500.000 Jahre v. Chr. ist der aufrechte Gang revolutionär in der menschlichen Evolution. Du steigst rückwärts ins Schwimmbad herab.
    Von Fassaden unzähliger Mietwohnungen umgeben, ist es im eigenen Kosmos versteckt.  Angeschlossen an die Wellenleitung schaust du auf dein Fon. Anweisungen kommen per Nachricht: >Du kannst die sanitären Anlagen im Fitnessstudio 2. OG besuchen, bist dazu aber nicht verpflichtet. Für Versorgung steht die Pommeskrake zur Verfügung. Im Duft der Fritöse verschwindet das Böse. Nah am Körper ist nur das Fon. Geh durch den vergilbten PVC-Vorhang in den Freischwimmer:innenbereich zum großen Bühnenbecken, die Lappen klatschen dir beim Durchgehen über die Schultern, vorbei an Skaterampen auf das liquide Parkett. Beobachte den GROUND und finde deine ganz persönliche Variation. Nutze die vorhandenen Sitzgelegenheiten zur Grübelei und als Ablagefläche.<
    Eine Weile schaust du den Synchronschwimmer:innen im großen Becken zu. Eine hat sich vertan, sie hinkt für einen kurzen Moment der Choreographie hinterher. Das menschliche Auge kann bereits unterscheiden, wenn Bild und Ton im Film nur wenige Millisekunden asynchron laufen. In deinem Kopf geht die Synchronstimme weiter. Wenn er die Stimme für den dargestellten Typ unpassend hielt ließ Rainer Werner Fassbinder seine Schauspieler:innen synchronisieren.
    Da taucht die Bademeisterin vor dir auf, gespielt von Birgit Minichmayr. Kurz lenkt dich ein Anflug von Neid auf ihre tiefe Stimme von dem ab, was sie sagt: „Und ich, ich möchte einfach aus tiefstem Herzen die Herzen so rühren. So sehr, sehr rühren, dass sie sich politisch verhalten.“
    Der Applaus erfolgt mit schrumpelnden Fingern.

    With text fragments by Elena Carr, Birgit Minichmayr, Monika Rinck, Lea Wilsdorf

  • K in Summercamp

    K in Summercamp

    K in summercamp – a performative installation

    WERK X | Vienna AT 2018
    Duration 4h

    “We are the theatre that has a place for everyone, everyone in his [her] place!” reads the Natural Theatre of Oklahoma’s recruitment poster on the last pages of Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel Amerika. Along with many others whose curiosity is stirred by that poster, Kafka’s protagonist Karl, who had to leave Europe and arrives in America as an immigrant, finds himself in front of this poster after many trials and tribulations, including unsuccessful job attempts. After the auditions, a large group of those who got hired by the theatre boards a train that takes them to their new destination of working and living – to an unknown place with an unpredictable future. The narrative abruptly ends in the middle of this train journey, leaving the plot unfinished and opening up space for speculation: what is our future, where are we headed to, what have we said YES to, are we just a brick in the fortress of capitalism? Are we participating in a society arena or are we observers seated in the auditorium? Are we lured by the invitation and by trusting the word “welcome”, are we ready to risk and/or trade everything we have, solely based on a promise? Where do we position ourselves in the pyramid of a capitalist society? Is the yet unknown place already pre-defined and projected, no matter to where we move? Do we feel free if we accept the offer? Why do we move?

    The authors of K in summercamp tackle these questions through a performative installation. It is a culmination of a five week research of the WienWoche Working group, formed through an open call for participants without a selection procedure. With a place for everyone, but with conditions to be negotiated and decided, the interdisciplinary group, with members coming from performance, visual art, literature, theory, stage and fashion design background – used Kafka’s writing as a trigger for a study of our contemporaneity. With its surgically precise depictions of power structures, administration and precarity 100 years ago, this classic still is a diagnosis our current social condition.

    K in summercamp uses the very performance space and its surrounding spaces, as well as buildings’ mechanisms in creating paths, parcours and environments. The audience follows artistic interventions / stations that criticize, strip bare, illustrate or deconstruct key notions from the research: invitation as interpellation, migration, camp, precarity, media and ideology disorientation. The spatial dramaturgy leads from a flashy and seductive, mediatized ‘lobby’ into a more segmented and strict space of organization, control and regulations happening in front of our eyes. Locating Kafka’s iconic character K in the summercamp points out to the menacing omnipresence of the politics of the camp that still is the operating logic of society that functions on inclusion and exclusion.

    By and with Elena Carr, Bojan Djordjev, Mirjana Djotunović Mustra, Jana Dolečki, Siniša Ilić, Asija Ismailovski, Srđan Knežević, Eva Kovač, Kristina Malbašić, Franziska Schindler and Mirjam Stängl
    Artistic direction Siniša Ilić and Bojan Djordjev
    Guest performers Amar Kulenović, Jan Liefhold, Vid Jeraj, Agnieszka Salamon and Eliah Stängl

  • Rasten

    Rasten

    Exhibition view | Graduate exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Munich 2017

    Rastraum
    Graduate exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Munich 2017


    Sound installation inside the bonnet: Der gelassene Mensch (Dampf, Dampf!)
    Elena Carr, Manuel Neboisa, Lorenz Schreiner | 2015

  • Cinema Românesc

    Cinema Românesc

    Short Film Screenings 2017

    PAO (Potoc /RO)
    Subzentrale Maximiliansforum Munich (GER)
    Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Munich (GER)
    Faculty of Fine Arts Timișoara (RO)

    Students from different classes at the Academy of Fine Arts embark on a transdisciplinary journey to Romania with the Munich collective TAM TAM to develop a multimedia workspace on site. In collaboration with the Romanian Experimental Architecture Summerschool PAO, a cinematographic installation is being created. The project will take place in a former school building in the village of Potoc, which will become an open stage for Cinema Românesc, short film screenings, installations, performances, experimental sound and workshops. Fragments of images will be juxtaposed associatively.

    Coordination Elena Carr, Katharina Deml u. Lea Wilsdorf
    With Anca, Michaela Brandl, Constantin von Canal, Costas Coman, Katharina Deml, Hardy Funk, Elena Haas, Peter Herr, Lorenz Mayr, Lucia Mirlach, Julia Mußgnug, Manuel Neboisa, Angela Neumair, NOT YET, Eveline Reinholz, Claudia Röhrle, Rumpeln, Cordula Schieri, Agnes Sophie Sowa, Hias Stadler, Nelly Stein, Pauline Stroux, Janina Totzauer, Sonja Wahler, Michael Wieczorek

    Romanian Roulette, a narrative moment
    Exhibition view Annual Exhibition Academy of Fine Arts Munich, 2017
    Photo: Kilian Blees

    The studio space becomes a shade, turn yourself inside the installation in a film made of single photos. The machine tells the story. A journey through time, a time shift, a small village in western Romania. A former village school becomes a working space. Fragments of images are juxtaposed associatively. Photographs build a film script while NOT YET realises the movement mechanism.

  • Ash wednesday of the artists

    Ash wednesday of the artists

    Photo Hans-Rudolf Schulz

    Die Welt Kompakt | 2014

    Visual and spatial design Elena Carr, Franziska Wirtensohn, Michael Wittmann
    Dramaturgy, Reading Maximilian Dorner
    With support in red uniform     Elisabeth Altnöder, Michaela Andrae, Larissa Böhm, Cedric Carr, Jonas Carr, Matthias Daufratshofer, Katharina Deml, Nora Endrich, Elias Finsterlin, Jan Hashagen, Teresa Hörl, Viola Relle, Katharina Schimpf, Karla Ströbele, Linda Tepfer, Tilo Weber, Raphael Weilguni, Bonifaz Weiß, Lea Wilsdorf, Christine Zehntner
    Live Documented by Bayerisches Fernsehen
    Frauenkirche Munich, 2014