night of performances - MPAxB 2012 event

night of performances

We are pleased to invite you to our MPAxB 2012 event

MPAxB 2012 @ kunstraum tapir 1 night 3 performances

20h - "What a Nice Time We Had Here": performance project by Alex Nathanson and Dylan Neely 20h30 - sound performance by Solomiya Moroz and Alessandra Eramo 21h - "My 1000th Birthday Party" with Filipa Guimarães

What a Nice Time We Had Here (a project by Alex Nathanson and Dylan Neely)

"The only thing I am afraid of is that we will someday just go home and then we will meet once a year, drinking beer, and nostalgically remembering what a nice time we had here. Promise ourselves that this will not be the case." (Slavoj Zizek, NYC 2011) What a Nice Time We Had Here is a collaboration between video artist Alex Nathanson and violinist and composer Dylan Neely. The projections are based in computer programs Nathanson writes in Max/MSP/Jitter to take sensor data from the live performance to control video play and animation. Neely's improvisational style is influenced by Eastern European Roma folk music, punk, and minimalism. The project explores nostalgia, dreams, and the desire for meaningful social and political action, taking Zizek's above quote as a starting point for exploring footage captured the morning of October 15th at Occupy Wall St. in New York City.

My 1000th Birthday Party (Filipa Guimarães)

This project is a reflection on the profound and disturbing meaning of existence: a contradictory, strange box of pain and pleasure. The hyperbolic characteristics of this performance/installation are a metaphor for the impossibility to live forever or an interrogation into the desire to extend life. Why do we celebrate the date of birth and what it means personally and socially? Paradoxically, although we don’t like to get old, we make a party each time we have managed to survive for another year. This contradiction means that we actually don’t know how to deal with the close relationship between life and death. My 1000th Birthday Party is a surreal and fictional vision about existence and it’s celebration.

Filipa will give an artist talk on May 28 at 6pm at Tapir - please join us!

Solomiya Moroz and Alessandra Eramo

Solomiya Moroz and Alessandra Eramo have met recently while collaborating for the MPA-Berlin Open 48 hrs marathon. Their performance prompted them to collaborate further on a musique concrète collage performance with flute, voice, computer, theremin and field recordings. Alessandra Eramo is a sound artist, performer and researcher based in Berlin, working in the area of extended vocal techniques, sound-and visual poetry. www.ezramo.com Solomiya Moroz is a flutist, improviser, composer and sound artist collaborating often with artists from electronic music, dance and visual media. She is based in Montreal, Canada and currently in residence at Takt Berlin. www.solomiyamoroz.com

MPAxB 2012 programme presenting over 100 different projects at 67 locations throughout the city, featuring innovative and experimental work by hundreds of artists, curators, producers, networks, organisations and initiatives from Berlin and around the world. Running for the whole of May, MPA-B 2012 truly reflects the creative force injected by independent artists into the city‘s performance art scene with an eclectic programme of indoor and outdoor performances, workshops, lectures, actions, site-specific interventions, talks, performance art marathons, experimental music and unique audience encounters and interactions. MPA-B is a month-long platform dedicated to highlighting, promoting and interconnecting the wealth and diversity of independent, contemporary and experimental Performance Art practices thriving in Berlin.

Running for its second year in May 2012, MPA-B brings together independent artists, curators, producers, venues, networks and organisations, which operate beyond and across the boundaries of institutionalised and mainstream performing arts structures. The only Performance Art project of its kind in Germany and beyond, MPA-B brings experimental and groundbreaking performances to the general and specialized public alike. With its diverse programme and geographical outreach, MPA-B opens up the world of Performance Art to as wide and diverse an audience as possible. It also exposes and supports the work of artists, curators, and producers by serving network development, artists‘ mobility, cross-cultural encounters and collaborations. www.mpa-b.org/

Veranstaltungsstätte: kunstraum tapir Weserstraße 11 10247 Berlin

night of performances
MPAxB 2012 event

Künstler: Alex Nathanson, Dylan Neely, Filipa Guimaraes, Solomiya Moroz, Alessandra Eramo