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KAIROS
2021
KAIROS_networkingwiththeunknown
2021
GESPINST_networkingwiththeunknown
2021
SEELEN-SCHWINGER
2019
Shamaan Banaan - 1rst Show
2017
Shamaan Banaan - 2nd Show
2017
SPRMRKT Songspiel
2013
mapping
2012
audiovisual installation
lake: ca. 2 x 3m
Sculpture: ca 1,2 x 1,80m
audio/videoloop 15 min, a lake, a smoke machine, several beamers, a soundscape,
a floor drawing
material sculpture: metal wire, textile thread, acrylic paint.
This KAIROS was shown in October 2021 during a short working residence in Amsterdam.
#4 The Kairos way to leave the planet
An alien travel agency created an alchemist apparatus to reconnect matter with humans.
Their idea was to create the perfect conditions in order to catch the one critical moment, KAIROS. Projections melt with sculpture, and movement with stillness. Neurons bounce on each other and objects become antennas to listen to the whispers of the hidden. The room is a portal, an invitation to a galaxy of momentum.
She lies down to take a break from her personal development with all its necessities. She breathes, listens and stares. Her mind starts to go on a road without destination. She meets her alien other and now she doesn’t know if she should keep her distance or adopt it in order to eradicate its strangeness. She starts to sweat. The smell of fear. The fear came out of nowhere. Suddenly it is she, who is afraid. She starts to resist against her fear. She looks directly into the sun. She closes her eyes so far that only the smallest of the sunrays comes through. She opens her eyes, quick and sudden, her eyes start to tear up. Different shapes in different colours appear in front of her. The same structures appear, when she closes her eyes. It is like an open door to see an in between universe. She connects threads with knots to rebuild the structures she saw. She colours them to create space. These threads ban the fears. She networks with the unknown, catches the uncatchable. She leaves loose ends and invites strangers to grab them. It is time to lie down and change perception.
lakeland
nature on a stage
by Susanna Brenner and Oneka von Schrader
”In spring of youth it was my lot
To haunt of the wide world a spot
The which I could not love the less--
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,
And the tall pines that towered around.”
(THE LAKE, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
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What can I see when I stare at water? Why do I rest around a lake? What made me stop here? A lake is a surface of reflection. It is a fluid mirror. When I jump in the water, the mirror gets distorted and I enter into another world.
In summer 2016 I filmed a girl in a yellow jacket wandering around a lake in the mountains of Piemont/Italy. I film her from a distance. We can’t see her face. She could be me or … you. Being around a lake is like sitting in a theatre. You see a reflection of yourself, but you hope to enter into something different.
I want to collaborate with the singer, performer choreographer Oneka von Schrader. We are interested to create for Come Together 2017 a video installation with the footage from that afternoon in the mountains. It will be a landscape out of images, sounds and the audience. The stage and the lake will be mirror and echo for each other.
Inspired by the silent movie tradition will there be live music: singing, mumbling, rapping, sighing, building sounds, stamping feet, manipulated sounds, distortion.
The path of the girl with the yellow jacket will become a song line.
A song to ground or (re-)connect with the earth. Mama here I come.
Created by Amsterdam based visual artist Susanna Brenner and dramaturge Felix Ritter
This project aims at connecting Mercatorplein - a square in the west of Amsterdam - with Geradus Mercator, a cosmographer and geographer from the 17th century, who has his 500th anniversare in 2012.
Can a place be determined by its name?
It is a mind game.
The square is filmed from a higher point of view. The camera is placed according to cosmography between the earth and the cosmos. The used footage is from 26 June 2012 at 12 pm.
The purpose of maps in cosmographic times was not only to travel physically but also to make a inner journeys. Any map was an attempt to create a world map, a mappa mundi. Even the image of a human body was read as a map of the universe.
The work is researching chances and risks of the inner nature of men by observing the human being in relation to its surroundings.
The exhibition in Iceland will be an installation that can be used like a map by a navigator to connect the audience in a ritualized way with heaven and earth around Mercatorplein.