Friday, November 18th 2011 – Sophiensaele Kantine Berlin

http://www.sophiensaele.com/produktionen.php?IDstueck=896

The State of Things

Vania Rovisco/Maria F. Scaroni (AADK Berlin)

With the creative contribution of Martin Eder, Metka Pretnar and guests from Berlin’s creative community.

“The State (of Things) is a condition, a certain relationship among human beings, a mode of behavior, we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently towards one another […] We are the State (of Things) and continue to be the State (of Things) until we have created the institutions that form a real community.”

Gustav Landauer

The State of Things is a performance project that aims to involve individuals into a live creation process. It is not bound to pre-existing conditions, but tends to exploit the given situations. Lately Rovisco and Scaroni have been dismantling the borders between visual art and dance/body work, forging what they call Visual Art Performance.

For Sophiensaele’s Kantine, the creation takes place in a week time,  during which  a dramaturgy is conceived to orientate the invited guests, and to orchestrate visuals, sounds and body interventions brought before an audience in a unique live event of the duration of 4 hours. The audience is invited to roam within the space, join a cocktail party, contemplate an action or leave and return, therefore autonomously deciding how to position themselves before the work.

Conceived, curated and performed by Vania Rovisco, Maria F. Scaroni

In close collaboration with Martin Eder (visuals and lights) and Metka Pretnar (architecture of space, visuals)

Presences: bösediva, Jule Flierl, Stephanie Maher, Thomas Proksch, Jochen Arbeit and others…
Music & Lights live Performance : Martin Eder, Mike Strauss, Moritz Stumm. ( RUIN )

DJs : Thomas Proksch (cocktail party), Jochen Arbeit, Arbeit Too (closure)

Sound contribution: Gregor Kosi, Andrej Hrvatin

Bar Ladies: Angela Munoz , Janaina Pessoa

Photography: Paulo Melo

Documentation: Ivo Serra
AADK: Jochen Arbeit, Abraham Hurtado, Jan Ferreira
https://thestateofthingsprocess.wordpress.com/

www.aadk.org

With the support of GuestRoomMaribor.

Thanks to: Martial Philippi (Absinth Berlin)

Performance Procedures Propaganda

The State of Things
Vania Rovisco, Maria F. Scaroni

presents

Performance Procedures Propaganda

Maribor, November 8th, 9th, 10th 2011

Performance artists Vania Rovisco/ Maria F. Scaroni (aadk.org) will present different durational works, in various locations – main square, gallery, bar, shop front – in collaboration with invited guests from the city, using visual art performances as a propaganda tool to promote ‘inter-change’ in its most diverse levels. An invitation made both to the artistic community and the citizens of Maribor.

The State of Things is a performance project that aims to involve individuals into a conversation and a creation process. It is not bound to pre-set conditions, but tends instead to use the given situation to create an original dramaturgy for bodies in space. The live events irritate the conventional representation of bodies and their normative social function and foster ambiguity as a viewing mode, multitasking as compositional tactic and multiplicity of associations and aesthetic choices.

Ahrenshoop Tanzperformance

Workshop June

Maria F. Scaroni and Vania Rovisco will be giving a workshop in the program P.O.R.C.H. Training Module 1,  Ponderosa – Stolzenhagen, Germany, in June.

zeitgenosissche körper {body_time_space}

The physical body is trained to modulate energy through dynamic meditations and chi cultivation practices, looking at the body-entity as very charged matter able to strategize itself, shifting constantly between being a shape, an image, an object, an animal, a system. Working with and in the space, time and presence, each body will be engaged and challenged in a question-making process concerning improvisation and its tools. How to sustain an improvised thought or action? How such action transposed into the space? How do we engaged composition? How do we engage/regenerate in our own working process?

For more information please consult and contact: http://www.ponderosa-dance.de >>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.la-alternativa.us   >>  porch2010.blogspot.com

Stipendium received

The State of Things has received a stipendium from KÜNSTLERHAUS LUKAS des Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop e.V., during the month of April, to elaborated a process which will ensure and contribute to the continuation of the work.

A showing will take place in the venue of KÜNSTLERHAUS LUKAS, on the 25th of April. If possible and interested, please pass by and join us.

The State of Things

12 hours live process of a work station

Vania Rovisco / Maria F. Scaroni

in creation with Metka Pretnar

Guests

JOCHEN ARBEIT – musician

ANA BANHA – photographer

THIERRY DECOTTIGNIES – writer

MOR DEMER – dancer

ELISA DUCA – actress

HANA ERDMAN – performer

JOSEPHINE EVRARD – performer

PAUL GREEN – photographer

LUCA HEIN – performer

DELPHINE KERMORVANT – photograher

MICHIEL KEUPER – atistic designer

MIGUEL LOPES – photographer

CLARA MASNATTA – literary critic

PAULO MELO – versatile artist

BRIAN MITCHELL – musician

ANGELA MUNOZ – dancer

HANSEL NEZZA – performer

JANAINA PESSOA – actress

BOB RUTMAN – musician

MARC SEESTAEDT – photogrpher

SANDRA WIESER – dancer

06 November –  10h until 22h

07 November – 11h until 14h

STUDIO 1 – UFERSTUDIOS  – UFERSTRASSE U8 Pankstr. – BERLIN

http://www.uferstudios.com/

AADK Hosts

KOTOMI NISHIWAKI and THIERRY DECOTTIGNIES