Installation adopted for theater piece "Equus"

Photos: Rita  M. Kapornaki

My installation "Turning inside wilderness out" (2008)  has been adapted by stage designer Mária Ambrus for the theater piece:


Peter Shaffer: Equus
Weöres Sándor Színház in Szombathely (HU)
directed by Sándor Zsótér

more Info:
http://www.wssz.hu/tartalom/cikk/equus 

New piece in cooperation with Karen Bößer: Die andere Vernunft - Rausch. Trance. Ekstase

Photo © Susanne Diesner 

Bößer & Szörenyi
​The Other Reason - Exaltation. Trance. Ecstasy

An installative performance


14th -16th February 2020 in Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf

"The Other Reason - exaltation, trance, ecstasy" is an installation performance combining con
temporary dance, live music, video projections and liquid materials creating images and spaces where stasis and flow, inner and outer entangle.

Bößer & Szörenyi aim to free the energies of disintegrating states of consciousness while dissecting them, through the senses and formally.
Supported by Thomas Klein's oscillating pull of tribal beats and amplified by acoustic and visual rhythms and effects, The Other Reason takes both performers and audiences on a horizon-expanding journey between projection and imagination.

Movements, images, sounds, smells and your own play of thoughts merge into a space of suggestion, atmospheric density and growing openness. Immersion in other states of consciousness does not represent a flight from the world, but a purposeful calling of the "other reason" -
a horizon of consciousness beyond the rational.


For documentation see:

project website: https://anderevernunft.wixsite.com/index/recherche

performance teaser: https://vimeo.com/394170227


project funded by: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste | Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf | Hans-Peter Zimmer Stiftung | Monika Werhahn-Mees Stiftung
in cooperation with: Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf
with kind support by: Forum Freies Theater,  Düsseldorf and MAGICBOX, duftregie.de

New project: "The other reason: Exaltation,Trance and Ecstasy - an artistic reasearch project"

The project The other reason: Exaltation,Trance and Ecstasy focuses on physical and mental states of emergency such as trance, ecstasy and exaltation - conditions that have been found in archaic cultures and rituals. These states of consciousness have been cultivated in all cultures and at all times, arising from a profound and universal human need.

The Research was carried out on theoretical, dance and aesthetic levels into extraordinary everyday states of consciousness and their different movement characteristics.


The research reflects and attempts to visualize the inner states of the performer and make them comprehensible to the viewer. The aim is an implementation that reflects, dynamics and transforms exaltation, ecstatic or trance- like states of consciousness physically, visually and aesthetically. The Visual arts and performing arts are treated as equal media, the setting and the performance interact with each other.


More information about the whole research project :
https://anderevernunft.wixsite.com/index/recherche


Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste

Dixon Place presents: Crossing Boundaries (Curated by Marcia Monroe)

New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries.

7.30 pm 25th of September 2018 
DIXON PLACE I 161A Chrystie Street I New York NY 10002
Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10323490


A split evening with Sônia Lopes Soares - Viga 212 (NYC/SP) &  Karen Bößer / Beatrix Szörényi (DE/HU)

Karen Bößer / Beatrix Szörényi (DE/HU)

PIECES OF MANFESTO

Two artists – two manifestos. The wordless dialogue of the two artists creates one voice in a spatial manifesto. Pieces of Manifesto is a collaborative performance of a choreographer and a visual artist, in which Karen Bößer approaches objects through the grammar of movement with her choreographic gaze, while Beatrix Szörényi arrives to performativity through the figurativity of visual arts.

Pieces of Manifesto creates such a performative space-installation in front of it’s audience, in which per­formance, objects and installation react to each other and they transgress the frame of each other.


Performance, choreography, installation: Karen Bößer I Beatrix Szörényi Dramaturge: Lise Brenner Project management: Anna-Mareen Henke Production: karen-boesser-projects Coproduction: Forum Freies Theater (FFT) Düsseldorf Supported by Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf I Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Goethe Institut Budapest I Patty Heffley Coproduction partners: Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg I Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest 
 

www.piecesofmanifesto.blogspot.de

www.karen-boesser-projects.com

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Sônia Lopes Soares - Viga 212 (NYC/SP)
DANCING ON THEIR GLITTERING MIRRORS
about dance, wind and fire

 
Dancing on the Glittering Mirrors is a piece that combines dance, theater, and visual arts.
Using stories documented from intimate interactions in public spaces as its base, the piece explores the concepts of intimacy and passion, combining reality with fiction, and the extraordinary with the terrestrial.

Director, choreographer, performer: Sônia Lopes Soares
Performers: Mercedes Searer I Janet Panetta I Charles Gowin
Lighting designer: Jiyoun Chang
Sound designer: Kuki Stolarsky
Costume designer: Baille Younkman

Sônia Lopes Soares is a Brazilian dance artist, based in New York City. Cultivating a language through multidisciplinary collaboration, Soares constructs scenes using nonlinear, poetic narratives, mirroring the random and chaotic nature of the universe. This investigation encompasses vulnerability in the bodies, the line between fiction and reality, the ridiculous and tragic, and how they all interconnect. Sônia has performed her work in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, United States, France at Pompidou, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

sonialopessoares.org
www.glitteringmirrorsdance.com

Sônia Lopes Soares - Viga212  is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.

 

Karen Bößer – Beatrix Szörényi: Pieces of Manifesto
Performance, 50’

TRAFÓ HOUSE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS
1094 Budapest, Liliom u. 41.
Hungary

18/05/2018 6 pm.
19/05/2018 11 am.

Premiere im FFT

am 16.02.2018 um 20 Uhr

Weitere Aufführungen: 17.02.18 um 20 Uhr / 18.02.18 um 18 Uhr

Pieces of Manifesto

Bößer / Szörényi

FFT Düsseldorf (Juta)
Adresse: Kasernenstr. 6, Düsseldorf

Wörter kristallisieren und nehmen Raum ein – sie werden zu Text, zu Texturen. Zum programmatischen Objekt. Das Manifest verdichtet per Definition, macht die Dinge dingfest.

Zwei Künstlerinnen – zwei Manifeste. Sie werden zu einer Stimme, werden zu einem Dialog, zu einem Kanon, einer gegenseitigen Befragung, zu einer Polyphonie der Aussagen. Ohne Text, ohne Sprache. Stattdessen begehbar, installativ und interaktiv, ein Manifest in Raumgestalt.

Während sich Karen Bößer mit choreografischem Blick dem Objekt zuwendet und ihre Bewegungssprache am scheinbar regungslosen Gegenstand exerziert, widmet sich die Bildende Künstlerin Beatrix Szörényi nicht ausschließlich dem rein Gegenständlichen, sondern der eigenen Performanz. Die beiden Künstlerinnen stellen in "Pieces of Manifesto" Performance, Objekt und Installation in einer exemplarischen Versuchsanordnung zueinander in Beziehung und legen damit die spezifischen Kommunikationsformen, Konventionen und Modelle ihrer Disziplinen bloß. Eine performative Rauminstallation, die als Hybrid gleichsam die Bedingungen des eigenen künstlerischen Schaffens und die Grenzen des jeweiligen Genres hinterfragt. Bößer und Szörényi legen die Fragmente ihrer künstlerischen Manifeste frei und bewegen sich leichtfüßig in den Manifestationen ihrer geschaffenen Objekte. "Pieces of Manifesto" spricht die Einladung aus, sie dabei zu begleiten.

Künstlerische Leitung | Choreografie | Performance: Karen Bößer 
Künstlerische Leitung | Mixed-Media | Performance: Beatrix Szörényi
Coach: Lise Brenner
Dokumentation: Susanne Diesner
Projektleitung: Anna-Mareen Henke
Management: Béla Bisom

Eine Produktion von karen boesser projects
Gefördert durch: Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
In Koproduktion mit dem FFT Düsseldorf
In Kooperation mit Lehmbruck Museum, Igor Metropol, Trafó

www.piecesofmanifesto.blogspot.de

The Formula of the Present / A jelen képlete

03 December 2017 – 21 January 2018

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants 
15 years of <19 Freestyle Computing Competition /

Digitális bennszülöttek, digitális bevándorlók 15 éves a <19 Szabadfogású Számítógép Verseny 2017

New Budapest Gallery

1093 Budapest, Fővám tér 11–12., (Bálna Budapest)

The exhibitors include:

Zoltán Andrejkovics | Balázs Beöthy | Buttinger Lisa | Berg Eike | Ágnes Előd | Miklós Erhardt | Miklós Felvidéki | Dávid Gutema | Implausible Works (Agnus Szekeres, Lóránd Szécsényi-Nagy) | Kristóf Jurik | Gábor Kozma | Tamás Liszka | Fruzsina Marsalkó | Dóra Maurer | Dávid Mikulán | | Zsigmond Peternák–Máté Balogh | Clemens Schöll | Katarina Šević | Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák–Márton Fernezelyi | Tibor Szemző | Bálint Szente-Varga | Beatrix Szörényi | András Szőnyi | Bettina Szremkó | Andrea Sztojánovits | Máté Varga | Gábor Vecsei | Júlia Vécsei | Balázs Vecsey | Virág Vécsey | Raphael Vögeli | Tamás Waliczky | Brigitta Zics | Miklós Zsigó

Curators:

Bálint Ács | Márton Fernezelyi | Éva Kozma | Miklós Peternák