stromereien 09 - Artists
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post theater [new york / berlin / tokyo] & Beatrice Fleischlin:
Fish-Tales: The Only Tuna
The wrong fish in the wrong place – a performance concerning global interrelations.
Switzerland imports fresh fish from all over the world to produce delicacies like sushi, but many of these species of fish are endangered due to overfishing. However, there are trials afloat which aim to find a home for salt-water fish in Swiss waters.
Swiss biologists have bred tuna fish to survive in fresh water rivers. One of these tuna fish has escaped from the laboratory and made it into Lake Zurich – and is now discovering a world in which it is the only one of its kind…
In the centre of this piece is the relationship between consumer behaviour and cultural identity in a world where Japanese cuisine, the Pacific Ocean and a lake in the foothills of the Alps are suddenly neighbours. What do we know about what we eat – or don’t eat – or could eat?
Concept, Direction: Hiroko Tanahashi, Max Schumacher
Performance, Choreography: Beatrice Fleischlin
Video Art: Hiroko Tanahashi
Costumes: Luzia Fleischlin
Sound Art: Sibin Vassilev
Hiroko Tanahashi
studied film and multimedia design in New York. She specialised in Physical Computing, or interactive media artwork. She has worked as a set designer and director for film and theatre projects and developed numerous performances and installations. Her work has been shown internationally at festivals and art institutions. She was awarded the Franklin Furnace Award, New York in 2006.
Max Schumacher
studied dramaturgy in Berlin and performance studies at the New York University and has been a guest at many international festivals. His interdisciplinary practises span a wide range of topics and ideas: for example, he invented the “Strandvölkerball-Weltmeisterschaft” (Dogeball “World Championships” for the public on the Oststrand in Berlin), which has taken place annually since 2003. As well as his artistic projects and curators’ work he also teaches workshops and gives lectures.
post theater
Max Schumacher and Hiroko Tanahashi founded the collective post theatre in 1999 in New York. It is a theatre company without theatre and without a company: there is no art space permanently used by post theater and there is no permanent ensemble of performers. All post theater projects are research-based, the re-occurring themes are identity and technology. These issues relate form to content and vice versa, playing with reality and the fake and with its audience’s expectations.
Beatrice Fleischlin
works as a performer and actor in various constellations and also realises her own projects. The main focus of her work (since her graduation from the Zurich University of Arts in 2002) has been on the “zone in-between”, transitions, and interdisciplinarity. She is constantly interested in questioning the boundaries between performer and recipient, the transition from reality to fiction, and the possibilities of staging, installation and interaction.
Kindly supported by the Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bern, Kulturamt Pankow (Berlin), Fonds Darstellende Künste (Bonn), Der Regierende Bürgermeister - Senatskanzlei für Kultur (Berlin)
Coproduction: SAIR Solyst Artist Residence (Dänemark), Tokyo Wonder Site (Japan), NES Skagaströnd (Island), Dock 11 und Radialsystem (Berlin)
Performance Walk C - Thu 6th and Fri 7th August, 20.00