MENSTRUAL METAL 2019
by Jule Flierl
Uferstudios Berlin
Menstrual Metal experiments with the format of the movement choir from the beginning of the 20th Century. It appropriates the musical structures and conceptual content inherent to the genre Black Metal in order to twist its violent ideology through a feminist lens. Contrary to existing tendencies in Black Metal, which promote purity and origin in the racist, elitist, natural or cultural sense, MENSTRUAL METAL seeks to develop a strategy of impurity and uncertainty. It aims at crumbling the foundation of myths surrounding menstrual taboo, blood right, superalienation paranoia, queerphobia, and misogyny and to test queer feminist playgrounds.
The piece was presented in the frame of the Uferstudios programme series AUSUFERN 2019 – Transformationen.
(c) Marina Hoppmann
StREAM SWITCH 2018
by Philipp Bergmann and Thea Reifler
Performance: Rocio Marano Miguez, Thomas Proksch, Alexey Kokhanov
Artistic Collaboration: Lilly Pfalzer
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin
During Stream Switch the performers move between the spaces, objects and visitors of the museum. Obeying imaginary physical laws, they work with their bodies against the gravitational pull of actual and fictional worlds – or allow themselves to fall.
by Andrey Bezukladnikov
Octavia. Trepanation
Dmitri Kourliandski's opera Octavia. Trepanation, staged by Boris Yukhananov, premiered in 2017 in Amsterdam at the Holland Festival. The libretto is based on Lev Trotsky's essay about Vladimir Lenin (1924), and on fragments of a play attributed to Seneca about the Roman emperor Nero. The stage is dominated by an enormous head of Lenin, and centaur skeletons. It is a complex, multivalent work, in which the theme of tyranny is projected onto the contemporary world. The Russian premiere, for which the Electrotheatre has announced an audition for volunteers to participate as soldiers in a Terracotta army, will take place on the stage of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre on October 17 to 19 as part of the Territory festival.
SET IN THE STREET by Justin Bettman
at the opening of New Space of Theater of Nation in Moscow.
Photographer Justin Bettman came to Moscow for the first time, to literally build up from pieces (the pieces of thrown out furniture and cast-off things) a scene from everyday Russian life.
Curator: Vera Martynov
More information: http://www.setinthestreet.com