RED BIND - Gilivanka KEDZIOR & Barbara FRIEDMAN
Department of Theatre and Media Studies -
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg - Germany |
NO LIMITS Project
Workshop/Praxisseminar “Introduction to Performance Art through the Notion of Limits” | APR 27-28, 2013 | Department of Theatre and Media Studies - Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Performances | JUNE 25-29, 2013 | 23rd International Week of young Theatre - ARENA... of the young Arts, Markgrafentheater, Hauptstrasse & Schlossplatz, Erlangen, Germany
A collaboration between RED BIND - Gilivanka KEDZIOR & Barbara FRIEDMAN and the students of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany :
Ania PACHURA | Yasemin FISCHER | Tina STARK | Florian HUBER | Theresa LETTENMEIER | Ludmila HANSEN | Silvia POXLEITNER | Josephine WIRTH | Kirsten ESCHNER | Elif GÜZEL | Vera BARNER & Inga BERGMANN
After our video-performance ACANTHESTHESIA was rewarded with the Co-Production Prize in July 2012, we were asked to lead a "Praxisseminar" - entitled "Introduction to Performance Art through the Notion of Limits" -, at the Department of Theatre and Media Studies of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, in Germany.
Almost all of the students who joined had never heard of Performance Art nor performed before. However, nearly all of them decided to get involved in the NO LIMITS Project, which was presented during the 23rd International Week of young Theatre - ARENA... of the young Arts, in June 2013.
“For last year’s words belong
to last year’s language
And next year’s words
await another voice.
And to make an end
is to make a beginning.”
T.S.ELIOT
| Four Quartets - Little Gidding
Après que notre vidéo-performance ACANTHESTHESIA ait été récompensée par le Prix de la Co-Production en Juillet 2012, nous fûmes invitées à mener un "Praxisseminar" - intitulé "Introduction à l’Art Performance à travers la Notion de Limites" -, au Département de Théâtre et d’Etude des Médias de l’Université Friedrich-Alexander d’Erlangen-Nuremberg, en Allemagne.
La quasi-totalité des élèves inscrits n’avait jamais entendu parler d’Art Performance ni performé auparavant. Cependant, presque tous décidèrent de s’impliquer dans le NO LIMITS Project, lequel fut présenté pendant la 23ème International Week of young Theatre - ARENA... of the young Arts, en Juin 2013.
“Les mots de l’an passé
sont d’un discours passé
Les mots de l’an prochain
voudraient une voix neuve.
Finir
c’est commencer.”
T.S.ELIOT
| Quatre Quatuors - Little Gidding
June 25, 2013 |
UNTITLED | Collective performance | 45’ | Opening of the 23rd International Week of young Theatre - ARENA... of the young Arts, Markgrafentheather, Erlangen, Germany
June 26, 2013 |
Florian HUBER | Irgendwann ist es zu spät. (Sometimes it is too late.) | Performance
Kirsten ESCHNER | Perpetuum Mobile #1 | Performance
Yasemin FISCHER | Hello. My Name is… | Performance
Silvia POXLEITNER | ‘’Grenzwert - Wie viel ist deine Grenze wert ?’’ ( ‘’Limiting Value - How much is your Limit worth ?’’ ) | Performance
Josephine WIRTH | [ Grey Hurts ] | Performance
June 27, 2013 |
Tina STARK | Bound Unease | Performance
Kirsten ESCHNER | Perpetuum Mobile #2 | Performance
Ania PACHURA | [ The Great Escape ] | Performance
Theresa LETTENMEIER | [Look Inside] | Performance
June 28, 2013 |
Florian HUBER | Irgendwann ist es zu spät. (Sometimes it is too late.) | Performance
Kirsten ESCHNER | Perpetuum Mobile #3 | Performance
Ludmila HANSEN | “Target-Echo” | Performance
June 29, 2013 |
Ania PACHURA | [ The Great Escape ] | Performance
Yasemin FISCHER | “The first time we met.” | Performance
THE END IS THE BEGINNING | Collective performance | 45’ | Closing of the 23rd International Week of young Theatre - ARENA... of the young Arts, Schlossplatz, Erlangen, Germany
"When I signed up for the seminar with RED BIND, I knew next to nothing about performance art.
I didn’t know what I was expecting to learn but in the end all expectations were shredded to pieces.
Barbara and Gil taught us much more than any book or any professor ever could.
They didn’t only explain performance art, they showed us, they let us live and breathe performance art.
They let us into their lives, patiently answering any question and responding to each of our individual thoughts, worries and feelings.
I don’t feel like I’ve met two teachers. I feel like I’ve met two wonderful women who taught me about the history of performance art, about the different kinds of it, about performing myself and about finding the strength to combine all those into my life.
RED BIND’s seminar was without doubt the best class I ever signed up for and I wouldn’t hesitate to do it again.
The environment Gil and Barbara create isn’t comparable to any other class.
I’d wish more teachers were as open-minded and open-hearted as them."
Yasemin FISCHER
Theater & Media Sciences Student
Erlangen, Germany
