• Performance

Ersan Mondtag - Becoming Sculptures

A group watches a performance involving dancers on a stage.
Two performers on stage with audience seated around, blue lighting highlights a glowing sign.
A person performs on stage while an audience watches in dim blue lighting.
People dancing together in a blue-filtered room with others watching from the sides.
A group dances together in a colorful performance setting, raising hands and smiling.

Dates

  • Fr 14.10., 17:00
  • Sa 15.10., 15:00
  • Sa 15.10., 17:00
  • Fr 29.07., 17:00
  • Sa 30.07., 13:00
  • Sa 30.07., 17:00
  • Sa 30.07., 20:00
  • Fr 08.07., 20:30

Artists

  • Ersan Mondtag

Language

  • German

To the exhibition

For his installation The Temple, Ersan Mondtag conceived the performance Becoming Sculptures, which premiered at the opening of Nature and State.

Both works have been commissioned by Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Different tracks of storytelling on human existence and alien forms are followed by an accumulation of acts, events, and discussions; all taking place in a humid temple architecture, a proposal for a temporary museum by Mondtag, that will dry out over time. The temple refers to ancient structures, where social, private, political and transcendent fields intersected.

The performance will be realized by Fernando Balsera, Giorgia Bovo, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Yuri Shimaoka and Ulysse Zangs.

Ersan Mondtag works in theater, music, performance, and installation. His new performance combines previous works such as Sinfonie #1, Nach der Tragödie oder wofür es sich zu leben lohnt (2012), with sound elements, and body movements, new ideas and forms. Elements of water, shadows of the Black Forest and electrifying bodies compose a future scenario with the feeling of the unconscious.