Brach und Wild
An audiovisual tour, a performative installation on a wasteland.
Can we gain insights into human life by observing flora? Magdalena Weniger (performance) and Maren Wickwire (film) turn to wastelands in the landscape, as well as human biographies, and research their creation, development and explore their potential.
While the performance of three dancers and the soundtrack of interview fragments and field recordings can be experienced directly, other multidimensional exhibition objects must first be discovered. The tour thus becomes an individual confrontation with the 13,000 square meter wasteland on site and the theme in itself.
In their botanical work cycle, KOMA&Ko explore the dynamic human-environment exchange and collaborate with experts from art and science. In addition to the performative installation brach und wild (2021), the multi-layered solo performance Tiarella Hybrid - a botanical personality study (2021) and Compost Composing (2022), a performance walk that resulted in an immersive audiovisual installation, were created.
Concept and implementation: Magdalena Weniger and Maren Wickwire
Production management: Linda Pilar Brodhag
Videos: Maren Wickwire
Mix and Master: Jarii van Gohl
Choreography: Linda Pilar Brodhag, Magdalena Weniger
Performers on the wasteland: Charles Washington, David Le Thai, Lilia Ossiek
Performer Video: Linda Pilar Brodhag, Magdalena Weniger
Costume: Bettina Kletzsch
Project assistance: Lilli Kaeten
Technical support: Matthias Weniger
Sign language interpreter: Monika Möhrer
Press and public relations: Katherine Schwarzer, Julia Klockow
Graphic and web design: Julia Löffler and Lucas Hesse
Video documentation: Julius Günzel
Photo documentation: Konrad Behr
Credit
Length of time: 3 hours
Premiere: 2 September 2021, brownfield site Heidestraße 36, Dresden
Further performances: 3 and 4 September 2021, 4–7 p.m.
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"There's a lot to discover. Engaging in it requires patience, calm, and time. Speed or duration are just as freely selectable categories here as the freedom to engage, to endure the emptiness, or not."
Rico Stehfest/ Review Dresdner 03.09.2021
"The sometimes indeterminate openness and expanse of the space, the large distance between the stations with their own "cosmoses," the sometimes loose textures of meaning in the interviews. The three performers who filled the space like allegorical figures in a Kurosawa film. All of this worked well together for me."
Friedrich Hausen/ Philosoph
" It was just the right day to stretch time and space on a wasteland. "
Florence Freitag/ Artist
“ I am going home very enriched. ”
Mrs. Frank/Retiree
"A truly beautiful work. We know what you're capable of on stage, but the fact that you dared to work so minimally on such a large surface was a great achievement, and still bears your signature."
Elisabeth Krefta/ Hellerau EZK program team
Reviews
Bracken und wild is supported by the Performing Arts Fund using funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR . Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony . This measure is co-financed by tax revenue on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament. Supported by the State Capital of Dresden, Office for Culture and Monument Protection . The “Bracken und wild” website and project concept are supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT , funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR Dance Aid Program initiative.
Financial support
Rike, Ullrich, Gerti, Dennis, Christa, Ali, and Kerstin for sharing your stories with us. Thanks to Zentralwerk eV, especially Steffen Huhn, Wurzelwerk eV, Hellerau – European Center for the Arts, Dresdner S+F-Bau GmbH, Ms. Zschaler, Martin Mulik, Andreas Ullrich, and Roswitha Maul.