Performance
The Body of Nothing
Premiere
& Movement Video Archive-Presentation
14.12., 19:00
Free admission

Quadrotopian bodyspace. Spatial utopian distortion. DARE MORE NOTHINGNESS. Deconstructed self-collective. Beyond distortion. TAKE A STAND. Distorted self-collective. Breathing. Walking. Breathing. Walking. Infinite unidentity. 

The Body of Nothing is a constellation of bodies, space and sound. Contemporary dancers move between semi-transparent fabric walls according to a choreography by the artist and to the sound of his alter ego Bas Grossfeldt. The spaces are freely accessible to the audience and the performers move through the audience. The performers recall moving sculptures.

Through shifts in perspectives, proximity and distance, sound and body, an atmospheric space is created in which various systems and networks of collective and individual identities and relationships are established or broken.

Among other things the performance deals with walking as one of the most political movements. It examines how subconscious movements as well as gestures and physical attributions have been shaped. With seven performers, Søren Siebel creates a space of experience that questions one's own or collectively emerging identities and understands them - almost utopian - as something that is in constant adjustment and reorientation.

Following the 60-minute performance, the premiere of the digital movement archive will take place in the Sudhaus with two large video projections. The archive shows the artist’s fragmented vocabulary of movement and the aesthetic language of the artist, which he continuously develops with the performers over various works.

Søren Siebel is a multidisciplinary artist who studied at the Zurich University of the Arts, the Städelschule in Frankfurt, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne. His interests in physical and mental states, identity systems, and relationships between groups and individuals are evident in his installations and choreographies in various contexts. As his alter ego Bas Grossfeldt, he released his debut EP Lost in Sensation on the legendary Detroit techno label Metroplex in 2020, as well as the album Klavier, with Jas Shaw (Simian Mobile Disco) as Shaw & Grossfeldt on the UK label Drone. His solo album We are now will be released on 9 December 2022.

Concept, Choreography, Space: Søren Siebel
Sound: Bas Grossfeldt
Co-Choreography: Helen Burghardt & Dimitrios Vasilakis
Movement Research: Yu-Yuan Huang
Performers: Ariel Hayun, Christoph Speit, Dimitrios Vasilakis, Helen Burghardt, Sofia Seta, Soroa Lear, Yu-Yuan Huang
Production: Candela Daigeler
Distribution: Isabel de Sena
60 minutes

The Body of Nothing is supported by the National Performance Network Stepping Out and funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the Neustart Kultur initiative.