Performance|Kunst Projekte
EAT ME COSMOS
von Melanie Maar und Christian Schröder
September 23 + 24
20.00
Tickets Reaktor
Swallowing space and time, this durational performance swings dangerously close to its surround in simultaneously evoking theatrical perception and uneventful meditative drama. In it, object, sound, light and motion churn in and spit out a single performer’s sustained effort to maintain the center of everything all at once at Reaktor’s grand hall. Melanie Maar and Christian Schröder create a field of attention for performer and audience alike, conjuring a continuum between hard-earned individual agency and a pleasurable surrender to collectively being eaten alive.
credits:
creative direction, performance : Melanie Maar, Christian Schröder
light design : Samuel Schaab
costume : Hanna Hollmann
stage manager : Kim Böhm
The project’s first audience encounter will be an OUTDOOR ESSENCE for two performers, Katharina Senk and Melanie Maar, on
September 14 + 15
18.00
at Prater Arenawiese, Vienna
future updates on insta: school_of_dying and melaniemaar
Eat me Cosmos in cooperation with Reaktor, is produced by Schule des Sterbens and kindly supported by the City of Vienna – Department of Cultural Affairs and Bears in the Park.
‘Melanie Maar and Christian Schröder have been working together for over a decade. Though one of these artists generally works with sound and the other with bodily movement, neither subscribes to categorization, staying in one’s lane, or conventional roles and boundaries in the realms of music, performance and art.’ full MICA interview
image collage by Christian Schröder and Melanie Maar
LINE DEATH DANCE
von Melanie Maar
Line Death Dance is a ceremonial improvisation for change. It has become a long term project in cooperation with organizations in Vienna and New York City since 2018.
Originally a performance residency conceived for ritualizing The Chocolate Factory Theater’s transition from their old building into their new one. Then things changed. A performance series, a book, a newsletter and now a film emerged from it.
'More than ever I look to performance to hold us, to challenge us and to entertain us with the mundane and the magical nowness specific to each context and perceiver. In ourselves and in each other, this togetherness can carry death as the very essence of the sensual a'live'ness. In many ways performance can serve as a practice of embracing dying in offering it’s unique psycho sensual reality now here then gone.
More about Line Death Dance previous phases:
http://www.melaniemaar.com/project-single/line-death-dance/
Article in ArtZone New Zealand about Line Death Dance:
https://www.artzone.co.nz/post/dance-cycles
LINE DEATH DANCE the Newsletter archive
Co-created with Laurel Atwell. Newsletter project content is the
work of each collaborating artist.
LINE DEATH DANCE the book
Author : Melanie Maar
Photographs : Laura Bartczak
Editor : Laurel Atwell
published and designed by ENTKUNSTUNG
The book is a sensual object. Images, pages, cover, text, texture.
Rather than a document it is created to be its own art object
inspired by live performance events.
The book was released in cooperation with ENTKUNSTUNG as
part of an online event in March 2021.
EXIT SKIN | a short Film
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/559538747/b62a884210
scenography and performance : Melanie Maar
filming, editin and sound: Brian Rogers
lighting: Madeline Best
other performers : Edith Greutmann and Nancy the snake
Exit Skin is a short film about the end of time. Apocalypse or Utopia set in a raw factory building and the city nature surround. Matriarchal icons, machinery and sensual texture come into symbiotic collision. Like a collage of abandoned essentials, randomly assembled guiding the eye through an alternate narrative of being.