The 24-hour happening traces the highly developed emotional system of dolphins. What would happen if we were able to transform our linear experience of time and space into a 5-dimensional vortex?
18:00 Check In / Worldbuilding
20:00 Universe
21:00 Climax / Collapse of the Universe
23:00 Food / Assimilation
0:00 GHOSTs
3:00 Trance / INK*
5:00 3rd Pill / Revenges of Nymph
7:00 Frequencies of Dreams
DOORS CLOSED
10:00 Promenade / Repeat repeat until its in your Bones
11:00 Futureself / INK*
13:00 Backwards Burning / INK*
14:00 Trance Crying Ritual / INK*
15:00 Wetness Ritual / Creating the Ocean
17:00 Bleed out
*For more info and booking options please contact @tattoos.by.pauli // tattoos.by.pauli@gmail.com or decide on the spot
Heinrich Horwitz and the fluid collective consists of Rosa Wernecke, Magdalena Emmerig, Annett Hardegen and various performers. The group has been working together in different constellations since 2016 and is concerned with the idea of constantly transforming the theater space as a utopian practice.
»Big Bangs & Black Holes« is a digital double-bill by Queer performance collective ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS. »Dogs of Love« and »We Come With Nothing«, created initially as stage works, are shown side-by-side for the first time, reimagined for film and animated with poetic imagery.
»Dogs of Love« (60′) investigates the intimate connection between two people. Starting with a real-life love story, two lovers run in opposite directions through time and space, through pasts and futures populated with real and imagined stories of Queer togetherness. Footsteps echo as we dive deep into togetherness, loneliness, crisis, and intimacy. Can we ever really leave someone we have been in love with?
To the Film
»We Come With Nothing« (35′) explores the dark side of entanglement. Inspired by the form of Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘constellation novels’ and ghost stories, it conjures a shadow-world of broken connections. What happens when a relationship ends in estrangement? What is this ‘nothing’ we are left with? What do we discover when we stare into this black hole?
To the Film
The films will be available online from June 19 through June 30, 2023.
Since 2012, Queer performance collective ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS — Chris Gylee and Aslan — have worked in the fertile ground between disciplines, combining theatre, film, choreography and research. The two performers deploy (auto)biographical narrative as well as meticulous research on Queer life realities for their poetic works. Most recently at Ballhaus Ost they showed »Karelia. A Queer Forest Fantasy in Two Parts«, and the film adaptation »The Crossing«. The piece »Dogs of Love« was premiered in 2019.
A site-specific AudioDate for one spectator and forest.
Spring Time is Dating Time! But if Parship, Grindr and LoveScout24 are not enough for you: »Dating a Forest« comes to Berlin! In times of climate crisis – just you and the forest, for two in the public space around the Ballhaus Ost. Book your dating slot – now!
Janna Pinsker and Wicki Bernhardt combine the lines of post-dramatic theater, choreography and performance for a young and intergenerational audience in their work. With an absurd-fragmentary and playful-confrontational aesthetic, they negotiate themes such as shame, bodily change, climate crisis or the power of couple relationships.
A T T E N T I O N : some slots are not barrier-free! Please contact us if necessary by mail to info @ ballhausost.de
Two peformers encounter the audience in a live experiment with human and technologized modes of perception. In the hybridity of human senses, emotions, projections and spatial fluidity, they make the area between categorizing gazes their world and discover in it the poetics of glitches – disturbances in the system.
Gloria Höckner is a freelance choreographer and performer. Gloria’s artistic works deal with the relationship of the body to technology and power structures as well as the transformational potential of sound experiences.
The improvisational vocal collective from Hamburg resides for a week at Ballhaus Ost. After two music theater projects, artistic practices and authorships have developed out of the versatile group. The TakeHeart residency at Ballhaus Ost serves to gather this multiplicity under one roof. Voices and hierarchies are once again reshuffled. Which narratives, texts and melodies emerge from the choir itself? How can the multiplicity be made audible? On Sunday, the choir opens its doors for a live listening session open to the public, inviting you to listen to new compositions, narratives and improvisations in a relaxed atmosphere over a cup of tea.
Der extrem gemische Chor is a musical theater ensemble founded in 2017. The ensemble’s composition strives for vocal heterogeneity, encompassing a wide range of ages, professionalities and musical imprints.
The interactive radio play »Beton. Wüste. Zukunft.« invites you to trace your own cognitive dissonance between real climate crisis and fatalistic repression. With dripping sounds, diving meditation and thought experiments, big questions are asked and small steps towards utopia are dared.
Alisa Tretau’s multidisciplinary works revolve around shameful facets of current political issues. The 360° short film »Wüste Zukunft« already revolved around climate justice. Previously she published the anthology ‘Nicht nur Mütter waren schwanger’ (edition assemblage).
Melanie Schmidli and team reanimate the lost sounds of historical “hysterical” women*. In an installative sound world they invite to conversations with experts on the female* voice. Finale: a participatory concert by Kreischende Weiber* including dinner.
For some time now, the actress and director Melanie Schmidli has been dealing with the discourse of hysteria as a means of social exclusion and oppression of women* in her work cycle Divina Hysterika. The multi-layered artistic process takes place in changing formats and collaborations. “Kreischende Weiber*” is the second collaboration with dramaturg Almut Wedekind, freelance artist and scenographer Barbara Lenartz, and actress and assistant Saskia Mommertz in this context. For the first time the team collaborates with the sound artist and noise maker Almut Schwacke.
The dancers listen to the space, inwardly and to each other, and move in response. In the four-hour process, they learn from what they hear to find other ways of moving. A highly sensitive mode of slow attention.
Labor Sonor – the series for experimental music, film and performance – presents the spectrum of current experimental formsbeyond genre-specific determinability – from real-time music to electronics, performance, audiovisual formats, conceptual music, new composed music and experimental pop.
A Durational Online Festival A new festival: It’s about time! It’s about time! (Es ist Zeit!) It’s finally about time! (Es geht endlich los!) It has been about time (Die Zeit war reif) since November 2020. Back then many people were supposed to come together for four days in very small spaces for very long or very short performances. But the festival went with time and transformed its essence: It moved its program into the endless time and space of the Internet and will present itself there from September 2021. Curated by Anne Brammen, Monika Gintersdorfer, Tina Pfurr and Daniel Schrader, the Durational Online Festival It’s about time will develop, present and archive artistic works by Barbara Lenartz, Club Real, Elisabeth Tambwe, Felizitas Stilleke | Smruthi Gargi Eswar, GRUPO D3 CHOK3, Markus&Markus, ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS, vorschlag:hammer, vt corp. and many more for an unpredictably long period of time. It’s about time is a tribute to durational performances that allows art to take its time. It is a festival that will last.
Für das Projekt »Re/Locating Amo« haben sich ghanaische und deutsche Theatermacher:innen zusammengetan, um Anton Wilhelm Amos Leben und Denken theatral zu deuten und für einen transkulturellen Dialog um Themen wie Rückkehr und Zugehörigkeit, Tradition, Identität und Philosophie als Anlass zu nehmen.
