Video | Kunst: DOZE

in: Performance » 2018

Kun­st­sta­tion St. Peter, Co­logne
08.05.2018
cur­ated by Anne Mager

Video works at Kunst-Sta­tion Sankt Peter are a tra­di­tion. Again and again, artists have ex­pressed them­selves with and in the me­di­um in their ex­hib­i­tions. Since 2000, the space also has a large screen at its dis­pos­al, so the present­a­tion of videos be­comes an ex­traordin­ary ex­per­i­ence.
For spring, Anne Mager and Guido Schlimbach have picked a se­lec­tion of works that will be presen­ted to you dur­ing April and May 2018.

Images by Anne Mager

DOZE is a meta­phor­ic­al jour­ney into the land­scape of the Atlas moun­tains, which are re­flec­ted through the an­onym­ous fe­male body. The empti­ness of nature and the early hours in Mo­rocco de­vel­op a new, a dif­fer­ent life. Based on DOZE (de­veloped dur­ing the QQ Res­id­ency between Co­logne and Mar­rakech), Evamaria Schaller has de­veloped a site-spe­cif­ic per­form­ance es­pe­cially for Kunst-Sta­tion Sankt Peter: a res­on­ance between body and ar­chi­tec­ture, the empti­ness between con­ceal­ment and ex­pos­ure of the body, the os­cil­la­tion between com­mu­nic­a­tion and ac­tion. An at­tempt to ap­pro­pri­ate the church space by strid­ing through it, to cre­ate an com­mon space of ac­tion to­geth­er with the audi­ence which an un­cer­tainty about the fol­low­ing steps. An ex­per­i­ment that aims to ex­plore the per­form­at­ive ap­pre­ci­ation of empti­ness in a site-spe­cif­ic set­ting.