testing grounds
In a collaborative process, Karin Pauer is developing a performance for the immersive installation testing grounds by visual artist Katrin Hornek. Together with the performers Martina De Dominicis, Cat Jimenez, and Mani Obeya, a sensitive, urgent topic will be negotiated: Starting with a local soil sample that showed radioactivity, testing grounds follows the permanent traces that hundreds of above-ground nuclear weapons tests have left in our bodies, plants and waters since 1945.
Twice a week, the three performers execute a score choreographed by Pauer. The score enters into a subtle, intimate dialogue with the spatial setting, with voice messages in collaboration with Sabina Holzer and soundscapes by Zosia Hołubowska. Based on atomic impulses, the performers use their thinking bodies to delve into the depths of physical memory and the unspeakable.
Co-produced by Secession with Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF). In collaboration with Tanzquartier Wien
is a performer and choreographer. The exploration of relations, in-betweens, empathy, and togetherness informs all her works. She negotiates these notions combining embodied choreographic practices with language, visual arts, and live music. Her works have been shown in various Viennese institutions as well as at local and international festivals.
is a visual artist asserting in her research-based installations a more complex understanding of the entwinement of so-called nature and culture that recognizes that our bodies and cultures are substantially and spiritually connected with other creatures and the elements that make up our world. Recent exhibitions at Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano (2022), Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (2021), Riga Biennale (2020), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2019). Awarded the Msgr. Otto Mauer Prize (2021).
Credits
Concept, artistic direction installation Katrin Hornek Concept, artistic direction performance Karin Pauer Choreography, performance Martina De Dominicis, Cat Jimenez, Mani Obeya, Karin Pauer Sound Zosia Hołubowska Text Sabina Holzer, Katrin Hornek Voices Alex Zehetbauer, Martina De Dominicis, Sabina Holzer, Karin Pauer, Arthur Trembanis Costume Karin Pauer Exhibition curation Jeanette Pacher Production management performance mollusca productions Technical direction Hans Weinberger Technical realisation Messengers Klemens Waldhuber Programming Messengers Franz Gasser Scenographic consulting, production Hektor Peljak (Studio Peljak) Consulting Julia Hohenwarter, Anne Faucheret, Michael Wagreich Artistic assistance installation Ivana Lasić Exhibition sponsor AK Vienna With thanks to Kunstverein Archipelago / Der Betrieb
Opening: Thu 07.03., 19.00–21.00
Duration of the exhibition: 08.03.–02.06., Tue–Sun 10.00–18.00
Upcoming performances:
Tue 28.05., 15.00–18.00
Sun 02.06., 15.00–18.00
Past performances:
Sat 09.03., 13.00–16.00
Sat 16.03., 14.00–17.00
Tue 19.03., 13.00–16.00
Sat 23.03., 14.00–17.00
Wed 27.03, 11.00–14.00
Wed 03.04., 15.00–18.00
Tue 09.04., 15.00–18.00
Sun 14.04., 12.00–15.00
Wed 17.04., 15.00–18.00
Tue 23.04., 15.00–18.00
Sat 27.04., 13.00–16.00
Wed 01.05., 12.00–15.00
Admission with regular Secession ticket: secession.at