SPINNING:BODIES describes a multi-layered meditation on life in a state of emergency, on language as the last resource, on the failure of systems and the fragility of identity. The „Future Club“ is less a place than a state: a place of transitions, of searching, of ultimate hope in the midst of demise.
Collective body practice and hybrid identity: freak bikes, bicycle sculptures, bicycles specially adapted to the performers‘ bodies from bike polo and wheelchair basketball. Multi-channel concerts in motion turn language into a material, an soundtrack and a performative gesture. Bicycles are vehicles, instruments and performers.
SPINNING:BODIES is an interdisciplinary project that is located between performance, film, sound art and audio-visual concert. The starting point of the project is the recently produced film spinning:bodies by Conny Zenk, to which Thomas Ballhausen has developed the text „Future Club“. The subsequent performance sees itself as a post-film transformation: a living, collective thinking space that brings language, sound, movement and space into new relationships.
„Twilight is just another form of attention. I hardly intervene, I just mediate between the states of aggregation, benevolently and somewhat enviously at the same time. This room is a ship, it falls, sinks, drifts.“ – Thomas Ballhausen
TEAM
Concept / Artistic direction: Conny Zenk
Performance: Cornelia Scheuer, Alexander Suppan
Rodeobike #3: Gratis G
Soundbikes: Bokan M. Assad, Elena Tiis, Emilio Atrio, Gulnaz Safina, Omayra Bolaños, Stefan Bahula
Sound / Concert / Performance: Creatures, Gischt, Rahel Kraft, Jeroboam Fenderson & Hansi3D
Sound / Installation: Veronika Mayer
Text: Thomas Ballhausen
Composition Soundride / Voice: Rahel Kraft
Composition Soundbikes: Mala Herba
Choreography / Media / Workshop: Cornelia Scheuer, Alexander Suppan, Romy Kolb, Conny Zenk
Dramaturgical Support: Rahel Kraft
Outside Eyes & Ears: Markus Liszt, Marie-Claude Poullin, Jakob Schauer, Magdalena Scheicher
Technical direction / sound / light: Georg Hartl
Laser & Tracking: Jeroboam Fenderson & Hansi3D
Live camera: Ioana Tarchila
Spatial thinking in lines / Make-up: Eva Grün
Costume: Anna Schwarz, Astrid Eder
Production Management / PR / Social Media: Michaela Zenk
Graphic Design: Joanna Coleman
Video: Francesca Centonze
Photography: Daphne von Schrader, Hannah Mayr
Production: amaze | HAZE
Conny Zenk 