Summer is most definitely over. Time to get to work again. I'm leaving for Turku today, where I'll perform "Ohne TItel (Bau 3)" during the exciting Performanssi on the Boat event Leena Keela is organising. Tickets are already sold out. 

From Turku, I'll travel to Copenhagen to develop a new city walk project with old friends from Teaterkunst and the Brazilian group OPOVOEMPE. If you are in Copenhagen: Results can be participated in as part of the Metropolis festival on August 28. 

In between, Im back in Berlin to celebrate the opening of Ding Dong Dome, temporay home of our friends from Showcase beat le mot, by performing a new piece "Wer viel fragt" at Holzmarkt 25 all evening long on August 23rd. 

Now the longest performance I did yet is over, the installation taken down, and all the results stored away. There are 46 text results, loads of photos, drawings, edits and some objects. Wonder what to do with all this. Until the official documentation goes online here, please have a look at the huge album of images from all 10 days of "Kritik der Weltmaschine" at Grüntaler9 I just uploaded to Facebook.  

Hope to be able to build a new and better Weltmaschine somewhere one day!

Caitlin and Andrew Webb-Ellis published this post about their visit to the opening of "Kritik der Weltmaschine" at Grüntaler 9 last Sunday on their blog. Check it out. 

Thanks to everyone who came and shared the machine-experience. If you missed it, you are welcome to join me at Grüntaler Strasse 9 in Berlin Wedding, daily until June 20, from 14 to 19 h. On June 15 and 19, there will be two more presentations, with friends and collegues demonstrating the machine, and a chance to try it out for yourself. These start at 19 h.

Herzliche Einladung zur Eröffnung von "Kritik der Weltmaschine" am 9.6.2013 im grüntaler9 Project Space, Grüntaler Straße 9 in Berlin Wedding. Hochfahren und Demonstration der Maschine ab 19 Uhr.

Die Maschine ist vom 10.-20.6. täglich von 14-19 h in Betrieb und kann kollaborativ benutzt, kritisiert, umgebaut und verbessert werden.

"Kritik der Weltmaschine" visualisiert den Prozess der künstlerischen Transformation am Beispiel der Übersetzung von Bildern in Texte.

Mehr Info und Bilder von der ersten Version in Turku im April 2013 gibt es hier.

ENGLISH

You are invited to join the opening of "Kritik der Weltmaschine" on June 9, 2013 at grüntaler9 Project Space at Grüntaler Strasse 9 in Berlin-Wedding. Accelleration and demonstration of the machine begin at 19 h.

The machine will operate from June 10 to 20, daily 14-19 h and can be used, criticized, converted and optimized collaboratively during opening hours.

"Kritik der Weltmaschine" (roughly: "Critique of the world machine") visualises the process of artistic transformation unsing the example of translating images into text.

More info and images of the first version in Turku in April 2013 can be found here.

It is May, and that means the third Month of Performance Art is upon us! And of course, Performer Stammtisch has a line up that ROCKS. And we have our own space for the month, courtesy of Stefan Nolte: NeuHoch is a small store in Berlin Wedding, Neue Hochstrasse 31. 

But most of all we'll have our own TV show: Verb Woman TV by Margaret Dragu, daily except Mondays May 9 - 28. Shows comprise a 5 minute art performance, and a 15 minute interview with an artist or curator involved in MPA-B. Shows will be posted on MPA–B‘s webpage following the daily live boadcast.

Watch live every morning at 10:40 at: www.ustream.tv/channel/verbwoman

Each Monday in May we'll have performances + talks there, starting on 6.5. with Frank Homeyer und Nadège Grebmeier Forget, 
13.5. Margaret Dragu and Dani Ploeger, 
20.5. Prem Sarjo and Perpetua Rodriguez,
27.5 Lan Hungh and Karine Turcot

Plus: 14.5. New Things, Dani Ploeger + students of MA Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University, London
15.5. Collaboration with (Con)temporary Space Time: Performances by Effie Wu, Ye Yu-Jun, Jörn J. Burmester.

All events begin at 19 h, at NeuHoch, Neue Hochstrasse 31, 13347 Berlin-Wedding. Except New things, begins at 18.00 h.

More about our events is here.
Check out the rest of the cool stuff at MPA here!

The first run of my performance-installation-lab Kritik der Weltmaschine" started today at Gallery Titanik in Turku. Three days to go: It is open until Friday 19.4., daily from 12 to 18 h. Friday at 18 h there is a showing of results and party. So drop by if you are in Turku. 

"Kritik der Weltmaschine" is an installation that can be used to look at the metamorphosis that is art making. Images are transformed into text. Text is fed back into the system. People and computers inspire each other. 

I will build the next Weltmaschine in Berlin at Grüntaler 9 in June. It will be open for public experimentation June 10 to 20. Join me there if you are in Berlin.

The Reduction Group (Joy Harder, Janne Saarakkala and myself) are doing fresh stuff in Berlin. A new series of reduced Performances in in the making. "Book Launch Party" and "Table Top Performances" will be part of the Reduction Group's Tiny Open Space and Bottle Party on New Year's Eve. Want to spend Sylvester in Berlin at a private party with the Reductionists? Contact me for details.

Am Samstag, 1.12.2012 performe ich in der Galerie KuB im Rahmen des Festivals Blauverschiebung in einem Programm mit Anja Ibsch und Dani Ploeger. 

Es gibt eine neue Erkundung mit "Birch Man", meinem Exoskelett aus Birkenästen. Über die bisherigen Erscheinungsformen von Birch Man gibt es übrigens seit gerade eben eine Seite in der Werke-Abteilung mit vielen Fotos.

Joy Harder, Anja Ibsch, Francesca Romana Ciardi und ich fahren nach Chile und performen auf (in? für?) der Deformes Biennal Performance in Santiago und Valdivia.

Otmar Wagner hat Florian Feigl, Henrik Vestergaard Friis, Noah Holtwiesche und mich eingeladen, als lebendiges Bühnenbild an seiner kommenden Performance "Kunst Kollaps Moralverkehr" teilzunehmen. Los geht es direkt (am Tag) nach den X Gebote-Shows in Dresden: 29., 30., 31. Oktober im WUK Wien.