Concert of Absences
performance and participatory soundwalk with Marie Hahne, Janine Hönig and Anna Stern
start: Karl-Marx-Platz, Berlin-Neukölln 2024
Three figures in grass-green overalls walk through Neukölln. They carry bird calls with them, which overlap and form a wandering urban concert. From time to time they suddenly stop and turn into immobile statues with bird heads. The concert is an acoustic portrait of absence. The birdcalls all come from birds that originally bred in Berlin but are now extinct or so endangered that their extinction can no longer be halted. The small loudspeakers that the three figures carry with them should therefore actually emit silence. Participants in the soundwalk can use a QR code to play the sound file from their own cell phones and become part of the concert...
stills from the video documentation by Michael Kupfer
Fountain Competition
site-specific performance with Nelly David, Marie Hahne, Janine Hönig and Anna Stern
Karl-Marx-Platz, Berlin-Neukölln 2023
Surrounded by Narcissus, Leda, Swan, Venus, Centaur and the Titans, we search Karl-Marx-Platz in Berlin-Neukölln for mirror images, for stories, contradictory, unexpected ones. For fragments of what the square and the fountain mean to those who live, work, pass by, stay here.
The performance collective Sportverein (Nelli David, Marie Hahne, Janine Hönig, Anna Stern) sharpens the senses for the overlooked in the known. Our research instrument is our own body in urban space. Our method is play. The body hides, explores spaces in between, transforms itself into things and structures, questions them, asserts itself. Play is possible in any place, always different and invites spontaneous participation. The play gives rise to performances whose form oscillates between improvisation and script.
The performance was a successful mix of choreography, improvisation and participation, of action, looped live sound and text. The performance collective Sportverein will continue the collaboration!
stills from video documentary by Steph Ketelhut
