WANDLUNGSMASCHINE – Installation & Performance

WANDLUNGSMASCHINE is the final part of the long-stand project performing archive*, in which artist duo WILHELM GROENER – Günther Wilhelm & Mariola Groener – explore the possible links and frictions between the opposing concepts of the archival and the performative.
WANDLUNGSMASCHINE is a processual, performative installation. Over the course of an entire week, it develops and accumulates material from the WILHELM GROENER work cosmos of the last 22 years.
The project space of the Kunstquartier Bethanien will be transformed into a labyrinthine spatial structure by a multitude of large-format, interconnected frames. Its mobile structure creates ever new spatial constellations in which the audience can move freely. During the performance week, this structure is constantly fed with WILHELM GROENER’s artistic means and methods of dance, text, sound, visuals and objects, thus allowing for constantly changing relationships, transformations and twists. The performers involved have an (archival) movement vocabulary that is constantly expressed in a different way. Performance and material condensations are continually achieved, raising questions about the interactions of the permanent and the processual, the emerging and the decaying, the past and the future, the old and the new. A kind of machinery that appears in constant transformation and yet seeks to rest.
The performance week will be opened on Monday by the WILHELM GROENER nucleus – Mariola Groener and Günther Wilhelm. Franz Anton Cramer will accompany the processual development throughout the week as a writing presence. The nucleus then expands successively during the week, including Sunday, to eight participating performers.
Each evening has its own motto and is unique!

WANDLUNGSMASCHINE N°1 | Monday, 09.10.2023
Setup, Space, Movement, Means and Methods, Nucleus Established!
with: Franz Anton Cramer, Mariola Groener, Günther Wilhelm | at the door: Assaf Abraham Hochman

WANDLUNGSMASCHINE N°2 | Tuesday, 10.10.2023
Establishment and Expansion, Soundscape, playful Archive, Labyrinth.
with: Franz Anton Cramer, Rudi Fischerlehner, Mariola Groener, Günther Wilhelm | at the door: Assaf Abraham Hochman

WANDLUNGSMASCHINE N°3 | Wednesday, 11.10.2023
Labyrinthine Experience, Translation, Dance-Mirroring-Communication.
with: Franz Anton Cramer, Daniella Eriksson, Mariola Groener, Günther Wilhelm | at the door: Assaf Abraham Hochman

WANDLUNGSMASCHINE N°4 | Thursday, 12.10.2023
Communicative Accumulation, Anatomy, Sound-Body-Rhythm, Condensing.
with: Oliver Connew, Franz Anton Cramer, Rudi Fischerlehner, Mariola Groener, Christine Henninger, Günther Wilhelm | at the door: Assaf Abraham Hochman

WANDLUNGSMASCHINE N°5 | Friday, 13.10.2023
Condensed Gaps, Body Archives, Shadow and Light, Memory as Fragment.
with: Franz Anton Cramer, Daniella Eriksson, Rudi Fischerlehner, Mariola Groener, Günther Wilhelm | at the door: Assaf Abraham Hochman

WANDLUNGSMASCHINE N°6 | Saturday, 14.10.2023
Fragmented Textures, Media, Transmissions, Twists and Turns.
with: Oliver Connew, Franz Anton Cramer, Daniella Eriksson, Rudi Fischerlehner, Mariola Groener, Ulrich Huhn, Günther Wilhelm | at the door: Assaf Abraham Hochman

WANDLUNGSMASCHINE N°7 | Sunday, 15.10.2023
Turning Orders, Reflection and Resonance, Decay, Dissolution, Essence.
with: Oliver Connew, Ben Cottrell, Franz Anton Cramer, Daniella Eriksson, Rudi Fischerlehner, Mariola Groener, Günther Wilhelm | at the door: Assaf Abraham Hochman

WILHELM GROENER and the project *performing archive
Since 2001 we – artist Mariola Groener and dancer Günther Wilhelm – have been working under the label WILHELM GROENER at the intersection of visual and performing arts. For us, our alter ego is a kind of third space in which our multi-layered work emerges in constant expansion, friction and transformation. Space, body, sound, visual means and material combine to create choreographic-performative textures. Experimental, abstract, poetic as well as receptive changes of perspective are part of our artistic strategies. So far, we have created more than 25 full-length pieces, numerous stations of our performance series “33 SKIZZEN”, a multitude of installations, video works, editions and publications. Naturally, the constant growth of the artistic oeuvre also raises questions about its archiving.
The idea arose over a longer period of time to focus on the body of work created so far as an initiator, guide, tool and tansformation machine. Not intended as a pure self-reflection and review, but as a potential method and possibility to overcome the temporality of the ephemeral arts and to transfer it into a broader, adaptive, playful and more present variety of formats. In turn, numerous new formats have emerged from the performing archive project over the past four years: Besides the reworking of our WILHELM GROENER web archive, the choreographic piece “#performingarchive2” (2020), the live online performance “33 SKIZZEN_performing@archive” at the ITI/Mediathek Berlin within the CoFestival Ljubljana (2020), the live online performance “33 SKIZZEN_performing@archive” at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut Jakarta as part of “art spaces and collaborative projects” (2020), the 8-part film experiment FRAMES FRAGMENTS FREQUENCIES (2022) as well as its further development as a choreographic-performative installation in Studio 1 of the Kunstquartier Bethanien (2022). Furthermore, our first NFT collection, which can be seen in the video space of WANDLUNGSMASCHINE, as well as “33 SKIZZEN_Archivpanoptikum” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana in May 2023.
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