The mirror has always been seen as a medium of both truthfulness and deceit. Moreover, if held up to someone, it is supposed to lead to self-awareness. Today a few clicks on the smartphone reflect, transform, distribute, send and share our outwards appearance and inner feelings of self-worth. Shiny, shiny… is the first part in a series of performances by Liquid Loft which confronts the current pressure towards media-guided self- optimization with its own history’s avatar.

Celebrities, drag queens, models, critics, curators, art-
collectors, or poets: they all laid their very selves bare in 3
minute close- ups. Behind the camera back then was 
Andy Warhol, shooting portraits of their most intimate
moments. In the series “Imploding Portraits Inevitable” post-processed wraiths from the Factory produce their own screen tests in a game of deceptions, a puzzle of glaring full-totals and extreme close-ups.

Light and shadow appear to defend their bullheaded independence to the sound of a Velvet Underground feedback that’s coupled to the now, while far at back you can hear faint voices from Chelsea Girls. Warhol’s “Exploding Plastic Inevitable” has turned into an imploding anti-spectacle.

 

CREDITS

Dance, Choreography: Luke Baio, Stephanie Cumming, Katharina Meves, Anna Maria Nowak, Arttu Palmio, Karin Pauer
Artistic Direction, Choreography: Chris Haring
Composition, Sound: Andreas Berger
Light Design, Scenography: Thomas Jelinek
Costume: Julia Cepp
Theory, Text: Stefan Grissemann
Video Live on Stage: by the performers 
Stage Management: Roman Harrer
Light Design Assistance: Sveta Schwin
Documentation & Photos: Michael Loizenbauer
Distribution: Line Rousseau & Marion Gauvent, A PROPIC
Production Management: Marlies Pucher

A co-production of Tanzquartier Wien & Liquid Loft

Duration: 65min.

Première: 22 January 2015, Tanzquartier Vienna, AT

Liquid Loft is supported by: MA7 Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien (Cultural Department of the City of Vienna) and BKA Bundeskanzleramt Kunst & Kultur (Austrian Federal Chancellery Arts & Culture)

AGENDA
under construction

2017

22 October 2017 CODA Oslo International Dance Festival

24 April 2017 Feedback / Tanzquartier Vienna, Austria

 

2016

17 March 2016 Via 2016, Maubeuge, FR

16 January 2016  Temps d’Image / Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, DE

15 January 2016 Temps d’Image / Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, DE

 

2015

17 September 2015 Incubate Festival Tilburg, NL

16 September 2015 Incubate Festival Tilburg, NL

15 September 2015  Incubate Festival Tilburg, NL

24 January 2015 Tanzquartier Vienna, Austria

23 January 2015 Tanzquartier Vienna, Austria

22 January 2015 premier / Tanzquartier Vienna, Austria