Zwischenraum. audio-visual performance @schloss neuburg. private booking //2009
marie-jolin koester //concept, text, audio-collage, stage and perfomance (trapeze)
kristina //stage and performance (vertical tissue)
two aerial performers, suspended between ground and sky, seeking adequate proximity.
a performance conceptualized as improvised movement between six frozen positions paired with music and spoken words about love as a spatial encounter.
Überraschungseffekt. Public Speech for Sharon Hayes@playingthecity //Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt/Main //2009
sharon hayes //text, concept, performance (english)
marie-jolin koester //speech-performance (german)
“Das Militär hat vor drei Tagen bekannt gegeben, dass wir eine kombinierte Methode brauchen, um die finanziellen Kriege und die bewaffneten Kriege unter Kontrolle zu bekommen, und ich habe meine Tabellen und Karten neu geordnet, um die Kosten gegen die Leichen aufzurechnen.
Aber als ich einen Schritt zurückgetreten bin, um meine Wände zu betrachten, haben dort alle Linien nach unten gezeigt und meine Sehnsucht nach Dir wurde immer unkontollierbarer.”
Through her performances Sharon Hayes examines the intersection of “the political” and “the private”.
performing safe space @Gender*d*rama //2008
katja von helldorff //photography and performance buenos aires
marie-jolin koester //text
“and my plastic-wrapped friend was tied to the chair. later we were tying ourselves to one another.
that indeed felt safe.”
Katja von Helldorffs photographies show some of her performances in Buenos Aires.
My texts reflect poetically on the nature of performance and its potential to create safe spaces.
the poetry of war //solo-performance @GalataPerform, Istanbul //2007
marie-jolin koester //audio-collage, text, video and performance
apjiw //music
“they sit besides the pool, where her daughter learns to swim.
small hands pull on big hands. lips open and close. a satellite passes by.
far too fast. far too far.
it’s on its own ride, and she’s down here, just pointing to see where it had gone.”
- violence itself produces languages for every silence -
fallen ist eine kunst //part of EVA+ @attension07
Aurora Kellermann //conception, stage, text and performance
Mark Fischer //music and performance
Sebastian Mähler //light and technique
marie-jolin köster //falling. trapeze-performance and audio-collage
“By tilting forwards and putting your hands at your sides, you can modify the pitch and make progress not just verticaly but horizontally as well.
Remember that you are the pilot and your body is the vehicle.”
Staged as 3×2 min interceptions of Aurora Kellermanns story of Eva, I conceptualized the falling as an art of its own. The narration consists of found plain-crash survival tips and texts by astronauts and parachuters.
“Tendenz Nach Unten” //Schattentheater mit Hörspiel auf dem Hoffest der Grüni 2006
Lydia Hamann. Text, Performance, Hoerspiel
Katja von Helldorff. Performance, Kostüme
marie-jolin koester.// Text, Performance, Hoerspiel
Und diese ganzen Bullen. an jeder Ecke steht einer. und diese ganzen Bullen. Sie gucken, Sie reden: Polizei. und an jeder Ecke Bullen. Bullen in den Strassen. Bullen in den Köpfen von Menschen.”
conceptualized impro shadow theatre combined with music and collaborative narration about state -violence.