The performance will enact a process of assembling and transforming the materiality of space, sound and movement into a choreographic object, making the event itself into a site of this construction.

As the object starts emerging from a cumulation of actions and incidents, the quality of mystery will be enhanced, as what is being assembled will maintain its resistance to interpretation.

If we consider that discomfort appears in a situations where we need to experience things that we do not fully control or comprehend, we would like to invite you to approach our performance as an exercise in making sense of such a discomfort.

Christina Ciupke is a performer and choreographer based in Berlin. She develops projects and specific situations in collaboration with artists from dance and other fields of art. She has worked with choreographer Nik Haffner, Mart Kangro, filmmaker Lucy Cash, visual artist Lars ø Ramberg, composer Boris Hauf and dramaturge Igor Dobricic. From 2003 to 2004 Christina Ciupke was guest artist at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. In 2013 she received her MA of Choreography from the Amsterdam School of the Arts. christinaciupke.com

Igor Dobricic studied dramaturgy at the Belgrade Academy of Dramatic Arts. Between 2000 and 2004 he attended the program Master of Theatre in Amsterdam (DasArts). He teaches concept development at the Amsterdam School for New Dance (SNDO), and since 2009, he has served as a research fellow with the Amsterdam School of the Arts, working on a long-term research project, Table Talks. From 2014 he is working as guest dramaturg in the context of the K3 choreographic residency program in Hamburg. Dobricic is a dramaturge and artistic advisor to a number of choreographers including Nicole Beutler, Alma Söderberg, Keren Levi and Meg Stuart.

Boris Hauf is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and performer and he plays saxophones, flutes, synths, organ, various computer-based applications and sings. He composes for large and small ensembles, performance artists, film, radio, soloists, video and installation art. More than 40 releases on vinyl, CD, tape and online. As performer and composer he collaborates closely with choreographers Christina Ciupke, Martin Nachbar, Karen Christopher and many others within the performance context. He owns and runs the independent record label shameless. shamelessrecords.rocks

Mehdi Toutain-Lopez studied lighting design in France between 2000 and 2002. He has worked with the choreographers Fabrice Lambert (FR), Christina Ciupke (DE) and Isabelle Schad (DE), as well as with the theater directors Christophe Huysman (FR) and Cyril Teste (FR). Since 2004 he is as a video artist an active member of the Collectif MxM, a french theatre group directed by Cyril Teste. Creating and developing video installations and tools focused on integrating image as a dramaturgic tool for performing arts. toutain-lopez.com