P E R F O R M A N C E
To (untitled portrait and ocean)
FLOOR OF SKY international Collaboration of Isak Immanuel (US), Luigi Coppola (I) und Yuko Kaseki (J/D)

"With a question of ,To' comes one of ‚from', between makes trace. To whom to write, to where to send, to go, to erase, to take flight...to return in question of address"

 

Video/Performance: Isak Immanuel (US), Luigi Coppola (I), Yuko Kaseki (J/D)

Gastkünstler (Musik, Mail Art und Videokunst): aus den Städten
Hualien, Taipei, Tokyo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Napoli, Florenz, Torino und Berlin.
Musik: Theresa Wong, Kanoko Nishi, Zachary Watkins, Maruta/Phnonpenh MODEL, u.a.
Licht: Martin Capatinta / Produktionsassistenz: Christin Bolte

"To (Untitled Portrait and ocean)" ist eine internationale
Kollaboration von Isak Immanuel(US), Luigi Coppola(I), Yuko Kaseki(J/
D) und verschiedenen Gastkünstlern. Ein Aufeinandertreffen von
Performance Art Installation, Videologue und Intimen Tanz Theater,
Remapping von Anonymität, Reise und der Anziehungskraft von Orten.

Durch interdisziplinäre künstlerische Site(City)-Specific Arbeit,
erforscht "To" die alltäglichen, skurilen und zerbrechlichen Wege, auf
denen die Menschen aufeinander treffen, sich verpassen, spiegeln,
verlieren oder sich ähneln. Aus der Zusammenarbeit der Künstler
entwickelt sich eine Serie von lebendigen theatralischen Gemälden, die
die Zerbrechlichkeit von Identität und Kommunikation, inmitten der
sich ständig wandelnden Stadt/Zeit/Landschaft, erkunden. Die
interdisziplinären Arbeit verfolgt die Grenzlinie von urbaner
Intimität und den inkompletten Formationen verschiedener urbaner
Persönlichkeitsprofile.

"To" wurde entwickelt und aufgeführt beim Hweilan International Art
Festival Hualien, im Taipei Artist Village Taipei / Taiwan; im New
Langton Arts San Francisco, im Farmlab Los Angeles / USA; dem
Museo D'Arte Contemporanea MADRE Napoli, dem Theatro
Affratellamento Firenze, und dem Officine Caos Torino / Italien.

 

Informationen über die Künstler finden Sie als Word Dokument im Anhang.

Projektinformation unter:
http://www.floorofsky.org

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To (untitled portrait and ocean) is a meeting of performance art installation, videologue, and intimate dance theatre remapping the transient spaces of a city and the gravity of location. The work is pieced together by an international collaboration of artists from three different countries: Luigi Coppola (director of the Italian based performing arts company LOSS), Yuko Kaseki (Japanese Butoh dancer and physical theatre artist based in Berlin working with cokaseki and inkBoat), and Isak Immanuel (interdisciplinary performance and visual artist and founder of the Floor of Sky series in San Francisco). With amplified bicycle/sound sculpture and musical contributions from Theresa Wong, Kanoko Nishi, Zachary Watkins, and Maruta/Phnonpenh MODEL.

As an ongoing site/city specific work, "To" creates a series of theatrical tableaux taking apart and re-piecing the quotidian, bizarre, and fragile ways in which people meet, miss, mirror, glimpse, erase, and trace one another. Following the dynamics and deviations of a fugue (in terms of the musical, psychological, and linguistic paths) the work is created from a multiple voice perspective. Just as the word fugue is traced back to the Latin "fuga" (flight, running away; especially: flight from one's country, exile, banishment; escape; or to flee), the artists each develop a line framed in the real and imagined cityscapes of uproot. This layered motion is framed by an international dialogue highlighting the social opacities, mental baggage, and overall weight, wonder, and often desired amnesia of travel. The work rests in discursive space, questions of return and the personal carrier space of one's everyday life that can fall open when parallel lives collide.

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Yuko Kaseki

www.cokaseki.com
www.youtube.com/user/cokaseki
www.myspace.com/cocokaseki