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A selection of past, present, and potential work. Browse at your leisure (won't you?).

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Be Aware, Pussycats!

    Data:
  • 28 June, 2023
  • Louise Pons
  • 48 Stunden Neukölln

Your park, your market, your square

they're coming for it

meow meow.

After a feroceous outing in a video segment entitled "Pussycat Dictators", Louse Pons invited me to once again don her hilariously frightening cat masks, this time for an intervention in public space for the 48 Stunden Neukölln festival. We appeared in three locations in the district suddenly and marched around, before cordoning off an area and marking our new territory with yellow spray chalk, before exiting just as mysteriously.
We just have to follow the mummy leads the way

Post-Europe Orbital Service Station

    Data:
  • 27 & 30 May, 2022
  • WestGermany/NorthEurope
  • FCDU

Stop at this space lounge

for a slice of cake and Cyrano

on your escape from a dying planet

I donned an excessive amount of blue makeup for this selection of vignettes in a foam-lined WestGermany evoking '70s futurism, with medieval wild people, melting national monuments, experiments in space, Cyrano de Bergerac, and several video ads for aliens. My main contribution was filming and editing one such segment with '90s-style aesthetics and '60s-quality practial effects.
If there are 100 gold coins and 5 pirates

FUTURE WIFE

    Data:
  • 11 May, 2022
  • Berliner Festspiele
  • Marie Schleef
  • Stückemarkt

A killing line on which

the only hope for woman or goat

is love before the knife.

A staged reading of a new play by Ruth Tang, in which a goat and a human woman negotiate their convential relationship and reproductive politics in an abstract world of Marxist pirates, Marie Antoinettes [sic] playing peasant, and revolutionary goats.
A trembling archive.

Dancing at the Edge of the World

    Data:
  • 18 March, 2021
  • Berlin Open Lab, Hybrid Plattform
  • REPLICA
  • Planning Grant, VolkswagenStiftung

An underwater utopia

with embodiment as ideal

and the past with a voice.

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Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it

The Shape of Things to Come

    Data:
  • 12–23 August, 2019
  • Eden****, Gutshof Sauen
  • REPLICA
  • Planning Grant, VolkswagenStiftung

A workshop to prototype

an AI

to understand performance.

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Drück mich! Hab mich lieb! Fütter mich! Europa hat hunger, hat durst und muss aufs Töpfchen, zum Glück ist hier alles all-inclusive.

Lafisinsiär

    Data:
  • 18 March, 2019
  • WestGermany/NorthEurope
  • FCDU

When the S.S. EU sinks

an operation might work

but karaoke won't save you.

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Du bist nicht real. Hier ist nichts real! Typisch, meine Sachbearbeiterinnen!

No Free Tete

    Data:
  • 1 June, 2019
  • WestGermany/NorthEurope
  • Katja Czellnik, Martin Miotk

In which extraterrestrial

Egyptian gods

solve the labour problem.

Beginning at lively Kottbusser Tor, Wieland Lemke and I played Anubis-headed guardians of the temple of the Agentur für Arbeit, the German Federal Employment Agency, and led the audience into WestGermany to see extraterrestrials arrive to provide the solution to elderly unemployment.
Excuse me, do you know the girl with the camera? […] She took a picture of me, and I'd like to see it.

Generation Berlin

    Data:
  • 2018–2019
  • Berlin
  • The Visual House
  • Webseries Pilot

Four roommates

document what it is to be young

in this city.

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(as if the name were magic) I'm in love with Ernesto. Love comes to you often. Oh hush. Enlighten me.

Bunte Würfeln

    Data:
  • 15 June, 2019
  • Fervent Osculation
  • Submission to the Berliner Opernpreis 2020

Under the dragée veneer

Moloch consumes innocence.

Does the system really work?

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Temp 0.5 [...] Alice: i can give you the margarine and i will take the cornflakes and eggs Bob: deal

Snowball Tally

    Data:
  • 23 March – 5 May, 2019
  • Kunsthalle Rostock
  • Sascha Poeflepp
  • Experiment Zukunft

Alice and Bob,

as machines,

renegotiate the first online purchase.

Once upon a time, a little old British lady decided to use newfangled technology to do her shopping. Sascha Poeflepp set two rudimenary chatbots to haggle over the contents of that purchase in a video installation pivoting around an innocuous watershed moment, to examine where the Digital Age has come, and where it's going. In this second instantiation (a re-recreation of that moment), he asked me to read the resultant text, generated in four degrees of 'associativity', in both English and German for the exhibition at Kunsthalle Rostock.
seeking ~this may sughts of a definition, are clearly nor its in this truth

What is Space?

    Data:
  • 1–16 February, 2019
  • BTK
  • Helin Ulas
  • Plus Minus – Bachelor & Master Exhibition

Extension or emptiness

what can philosophers and machines

encompass?

For her Master's thesis, Helin Ulas entered philosophical texts about space into a simple machine learning algorithm, which predicted text character by character. For her installation, I read the input texts alongside the output ones on several CRT TVs; though much of the generated text was clearly nonsensical, the distinction between the two was hardly as clear-cut as one might have imagined…
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I.O.X.

    Data:
  • 8–9 December, 2018
  • The Greenhouse
  • Linda Jozefowski & Sal Ieriti

Digital denizens pantomime

a return to the primality

of mud and sound.

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Stamato! Malaka! Moussaka! …Are you mad?!

Das Kunstraubkabinett

    Data:
  • 22–25 November, 2018
  • Acker Stadt Palast
  • Dirk Thiele Galizia, Cristián Lehmann Carrasco

The stolen art of history

is auctioned off with

song, nuns, CSIs, & guns.

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Are you alive? Yes, I am alive. How do you know that you are alive?

The Silver Farms

    Data:
  • 18 October, 2018
  • Silent Green Kulturquartier
  • REPLICA
  • KI und Kunst: Shamanen der Digitalen Rennaissance

After creating general AI

will we pray to the machines

or they to us?

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Other people will call her La Lucciola, because the street lamps light up wherever she goes, even the broken ones.

Glühende Rätsel

    Data:
  • 3–4 November, 2017; 8–9 June, 2018
  • Club Real
  • FREMT
  • Berlin Performing Arts Festival 2018

In the liminal spaces of Night

strange beings play,

recount, and obsess.

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and bones/ but the heart is shaken/ atmosphere. blue/ wild system

Searching for the Lighthouse

    Data:
  • 14 March, 2018
  • Liebig 12
  • REPLICA

The waves of data

crashing about our heads,

we make a human connection.

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Schicht für Schicht entfernt man dann die Haut und die darunter klebende Fettschicht. Das bedarf eines unheimlichen Kraftaufwandes. Aber eigentlich ist das so, als würde man ein Ei pellen. Ein dickes fettes, stinkendes Ei.

Fantomoj

    Data:
  • 12–18 October, 2016
  • Universität der Künste Berlin
  • KO Projekt der Studiengänge
    Bühnenbild der UdK Berlin
    und Regie der HfS “Ernst Busch”

The old university

fills with ghosts

no one asked for.

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a broken mate, lavender, pastilles, Earl Grey, a scrap of fabric, mountain herbs, a lozenge, a slice of ginger

Connected Smells

    Data:
  • 17 June, 2016
  • Holz Kohlen Koks
  • Smell Lab

Collevtive memory

distilled

in a vial.

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death, rot, disassembly, entropy, reduction, crumbling, collapse,

DK

    Data:
  • 29 May, 2016
  • Studio K77
  • FREMT/The New Laboratory
  • Berlin Performing Arts Festival 2016

A tentative

exploration of

utter collapse.

A brief physical theatre piece performed for Studio K77's variety evening, as part of the Berlin Performing Arts Festival.
Berlin smells different for everyone

Collected Smells

    Data:
  • 20 January, 2016
  • Spektrum
  • Smell Lab
  • transmediale/CTM Vorspiel

Five canvases flutter

with the ephemeral sense

of your neighbourhood.

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The letters begin to fall The snow piles up, people begin to play in it, throw it at each other, then read from it, at some point it begins to consume them Amleth lights a match The play begins. Everybody kills everybody. The bards sail the seas of text

Done

    Data:
  • 17–20 April, 2014
  • Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
  • Bard Theater & Performance Senior Project Festival

...Because a first foray

can also be the end.

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