By & with: Antonia Baehr, Jule Flierl, Hermann Heisig, Claire Vivianne Sobottke / Visual installation: Nadia Lauro / Concept: Antonia Baehr & Jule Flierl / Lighting design: Eduardo Abdala / Technical direction: Catalina Fernandez / Production: Alexandra Wellensiek (make up productions) / Production assistant: Izzy Collie-Cousins
Antonia Baehr / Jule Flierl / Hermann Heisig / Claire Vivianne Sobottke
Gut Gemacht! – Eine Versuchsanordnung über Werteverschiebung
In a visual installation by Nadia Lauro
- Performance
- Dance
German /
With English surtitles /
approx. 75 mins.
Four performers explore the rules of excellence and diletantism* as equal moves in a game. Moving between dance, music and absurd instructions, a choreographic match unfolds with, against and beyond the established standards of art.
What is the relationship between excellence and dilletantism and what might be more ingenious in dilletantism than in well-crafted excellence? “Gut Gemacht!” builds out from the system of judgments “well made,” “badly made,” and “not made” developed by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou. Using Filliou’s system, this choreographic work traverses unruly dances, defiant singing, flute, thunder sheet, and hurdy-gurdy music, absurd tutorials and performative court transcripts. Language and form behave like play partners who cannot quite agree. Instead of clarity, an absurd coexistence of contradictions emerges – one that repeatedly and skillfully resists interpretation.
Works by artists such as Gabriele Stötzer (Erfurt/GDR) and the band “Die Tödliche Doris” (West Berlin) accompany the action on stage, sometimes more subtly, sometimes less so. Their avant-garde positions challenged paradigms in art, music, lifestyle and social relations on both sides of the Wall, resisting societal norms through artistic gestures. Upon an oversized billiard table, Antonia Baehr, Jule Flierl, Hermann Heisig and Claire Vivianne Sobottke challenge the contemporary rules of art – playing with them, against them, and sometimes deliberately past them.
The collaborative process between the four artists has grown out of long-standing relationships developed across various working-constellations. It is driven by a shared interest and the desire for a temporary form of collective authorship, bringing together diverse experiences from different disciplines into a common working process.
*“Geniale Dilletanten” (Brilliant Dillettantes) was the deliberately misspelled title of a music festival that took place in Berlin’s Tempodrom in 1981 and became synonymous with a brief era of artistic awakening.
Cast
Dates
Current
Notes:
Price: 22 €, reduced 12 €
After the performance on 6.2.: Break @WAU with DJ Set by Pleasure Politics
Credits
Production: make up productions. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, Les Bazis. Funded by: Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Supported by: Marie-Thérèse Allier Foundation Fund for Contemporary Art.
Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2.
