Dancing on Ashes (Welcome to) in Projectspace Römerstr., Stuttgart - Dec 4

Dancing on Ashes (Welcome to)

“Aika is genetically cool

She can’t really do anything else, but this she does perfectly

In such a cool world, she even can make a living out of it

But then she can never leave

She can never leave the cool world"

Dancing on Ashes (Welcome to) is a performance installation that will introduce you to the transmedia multiverse of Angel Meat.

Ines Birkhan and Bertram Dhellemmes present a composite work involving dance and music performance, video and staged literature. Though Dancing on Ashes (Welcome to) is a piece that stands for itself, it is also an opportunity to start the exploration of a work-in-progress that investigates through different medias the connections between experimental arts, pop subcultures and ancestral cathartic theatre.

Römer VIII - Mit heißer Nadel

Saturday, Dec 5th 2009 at 8pm

Projectspace Römerstr. 2, 70180 Stuttgart

Akademie Schloss Solitude

angelmeatonstage.blogspot.com

A cooperation of Akademie Schloss Solitude and Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg.

Klang zur Stille zum Klang in Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, 25 > 30 June 2007

Klang zur Stille zum Klang

a video installation by Ines BIRKHAN & Bertram DHELLEMMES

In Klang zur Stille zum Klang – a composite storytelling video installation – are superimposed the meeting of the she-Krampus (a legendary character from the Austrian Alps) and the new inhabitants of the mountains, and the tribulations of Tchumuki, a rebel employée of the silence factory.

Rencontres Internationales
Babylon:Mitte Movie Theatre
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30
D-10178 Berlin
U2 Rosa-Luxemburg Platz
25 > 30 June 2007 - 2pm > 8pm
www.art-action.org

Klang zur Stille zum Klang in Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, 28 April > 5 May 2007

Klang zur Stille zum Klang

a video installation by Ines BIRKHAN & Bertram DHELLEMMES

In Klang zur Stille zum Klang – a composite storytelling video installation – are superimposed the meeting of the she-Krampus (a legendary character from the Austrian Alps) and the new inhabitants of the mountains, and the tribulations of Tchumuki, a rebel employée of the silence factory.

This video work is a research in creating a hybrid media, a "video-novel" aiming to develop new forms of narrativity by combining differents field of arts – literature, dance, music and video. Here, images and sounds are not the supports of narration (which claims its rooting in the tradition of novel or even fable), but strongly influence its perception at the edge of consciousness, and also link reading to the temporality of audiovisual. In this interlacing of sensitive and intellectual perceptions, each element is carefully articulated to the others to elaborate a larger though still discreet experience.

In the “video-novels” series to which Klang zur Stille zum Klang belongs, the combination of images, sounds and texts allows an exploration of an ‘extended field of literature’. It proposes a complexity of perception that requires the full involvement of the audience, as well as openness at different intellectual and emotional levels, thus renewing the fundamental experience of reading. A framed time for reading provides a musicality that is not limited to the audible but indeed in the structural perception of time. The images are not anymore the centre of the proposal but a sensitive background that prepare the reception of the text, and the music is building a homogeneous environment. The fictional universe built by the narrative is also composite, making myth and modernity one, linking fairytale and social concern, and this reflects in the language used, a creative extrapolation both familiar and strange.

Klang zur Stille zum Klang was premiered in the exhibition Mythen für die Zukunft in Cabaret Renz, Vienna, in January 2006.

Rencontres Internationales
Circulo de Bellas Artes
c/ Alcalá, 42 - 28014 Madrid
From April 28th to May 5th 2007
11:00 > 21:00
www.art-action.org

Mythen für die Zukunft 1 in Cabaret Renz until January 10th 2006

prolongation of the exhibition Mythen für die Zukunft 1

3 video installations by Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes
Cabaret Renz, Wien, December 9th 2005 > January 10th 2006

Cabaret Renz, Zirkusgasse 50 1020 Wien, Austria

Mythen für die Zukunft 1 / Cabaret Renz Vienna > December 2005

Mythen für die Zukunft 1

3 video installations by Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes

Cabaret Renz, Wien, 9>31 December 2005

The 3 video installations composing Mythen für die Zukunft 1 are based on the principle of the video novel, where the multimedia process of combined images, sounds and texts allows an exploration of an ‘extended field of literature’.

They intend to propose a complexity of perception that requires the full involvement of the audience, as well as openness at different intellectual and emotional levels, thus renewing the fundamental experience of reading.

Literature and poetry being the historical main means of myths transmission make writing the proper medium to establish new values and new figures, even those of our technological era.
New medias that were prophesized to endanger writing proved themselves a precious support to it, and their open aesthetics give space to multiplicity of tangent and interlaced experiences.