Kategorie: Flutgraben Performances Residencies

In the frame of Flutgraben Performances we encountered many artists, who while participating in our events expressed a strong desire to spend more time working and researching at Flutgraben. Finally this dream came true and we are very happy to announce that we now have the opportunity to offer artistic residencies to Berlin-based artists, which will allow them to work in the studio for a longer time and without financial concerns.

Flutgraben Performances Residencies was initiated in 2020 by Clément Layes, Jasna Layes-Vinovrski, Moritz Majce and Adam (aka) Sandra Man. Since early 2021 it is run by Clément Layes, Moritz Majce and Adam (aka) Sandra Man. Production and organisation management is done by Tiphaine Carrère Loquet.

The following texts are written by artists who took the time to research with us changing ways to invite new resident artists. Each artist was asked to find their own approach to the process of selection, discussing their criteria of deciding with us and their colleagues.

We want to thank all the participants for their effort in finding with us new ways to choose, host, accompany artists in residencies that try to care about and pay attention to the diversity and the complexity of the Berlin dance scene.

We are happy to announce Zrinka Užbinecs and Kasia Kania as our next resident artists in 2023.

Zrinka Užbinec, in collaboration with Kasia Kania, will take time to research on choreographic clashes between cuteness and violence, thinking of choreography as an unstable state that can observe and produce ambiguous affections. By developing choreographies and practices that question violent acts in a performative way, this research will reflect discursively, critically and practically on (miss)representation of violent acts in performance and self-defence practices. With this research, Zrinka and Kasia will test choreographies that function as a counterpart to violence: a sensual activity, a caring force seizing agency and acute passivity – sometimes.

We wish Zrinka and Kasia a rich and inspiring time during their residency!

We are pleased to announce Guilherme Morais as our next resident artist in 2022.

Guilherme Morais is a Brazilian choreographer, performer and pedagogue. His research focuses on both dance and neuroscience; the mind and the nervous system. He’s particularly interested in how the unconscious and conscious are activated through movement and specific motor coordinations. In Berlin he contributes to decolonial, anti-racist and queer discourse in collaboration with collectives like Grupo Oito and Santix Schwarz. During the residency at FPR, he will continue his research on monsters, based on the phrase,  „I claim my right to be a monster“ by „trans sudaca artist“, Susy Shock. 

We wish Guilherme an intense and productive time during his residency!

„I chose Nasheeka Nedsreal for the Flutgraben Performances Residencies series 2022 because I was given an opportunity to select an artist whose work and creativity I deeply admire. I’ve worked with her for Jeremy Shaw, we frequently consult each other on professional matters relating to performance and the arts, we offer each other dramaturgical support when either one of us requests it, and she is a close friend of mine. So when I had the opportunity to choose her for a residency where she could have time and space to develop and showcase her considerable creative talent, my decision was made very quickly and I didn’t even need to consider anyone else. Nasheeka is a spectacular artist, and an amazing friend and it is my honor to ask her to take part in a residency that I myself found so rich, so nourishing, and so critical to my professional progression.“

Djibril Sall on his choice for Nasheeka Nedsreal

We are pleased to announce Ana Bisbicus as our next resident artist in 2022.

In her work “Tracing Nepantla in Berlin” Ana Bisbicus is interested in researching queerfeminist and migrant in-between spaces in the city, where contradiction establishes a state to embody. “Nepantla” is an indigenous Nahuatl word and means “to stand in the middle”. Her work seeks to identify the tangible and visible manifestations of Nepantla by mapping those spaces and places from her body and life experience as a queer migrant of colour. Understanding the contradictory challenge of capturing something that is in an in-between state and in constant transformation, Ana aims to approach the work by expanding the practice of mapping towards embodiment and performative strategies in a collective exploration.

Ana, we wish you an enjoyful and insightful time during your residency!

We are pleased to announce Anna Konrad + Romuald Krężel as our next resident artists in 2022.

With the idea of Social class (in)visibility in the field of performing arts, Anna Konrad in collaboration with Romuald Krężel will dive into the intensive research on how the class consciousness shapes the aesthetics of artistic practices, their discursive levels, and working methodologies along with the personal and creative experience that has accumulated by tackling the questions about labor, gender, and environmental issues. This work attempts to explore political and choreographic practices that draw on the experience of growing up and being raised in a „lower class“ social environment.

We wish Anna and Romuald a pleasant and fruitful time during your residency!

We are pleased to announce Michiyasu Furutani as our new resident artist for December 2021.

Michiyasu Furutani is interested in establishing relationships, and asks: how we relate to things other than ourselves? And how do we establish the relations through the body? He seeks to establish connections not only with organic but as well with inorganic objects, and by blurring boundaries between them, turning attention to the “voiceless”. During Flutgraben Performances Residencies he is aiming for a search of collective empathy through his practice and exchange with others.

We wish Michiyasu an enjoyable and insightful time during your residency!

The Flutgraben Performances Team

We are happy to announce our new resident artists for August and September 2021: Gabrielle Curebal + Djibril Sall and Colette Sadler.
We wish you a enjoyable and productive time during your residencies, and are looking forward meeting you!
This time the jury members were Flutgraben Performances artists Asaf Aharonson and Stella Geppert. There will be one more jurying artist´s decision by the end of September for a residency at the end of the year.

While preparing our next call for Flutgraben Performances Residencies, knowing how many great applications we received last time without being able to meet the demands, we felt that we do not want so many artists to put again a lot of work and effort into their applications with such a small amount of residencies we have to offer.

For this next round, our jurying artists are therefore going to select the next resident artists from the applications we already received in our first two calls. All artists who have applied in the first two calls have been informed about this.

We are doing our best to announce the first two residencies at earliest date as possible, i.e. around mid-June.

We are excited about the growing interest in our Flutgraben Performances Residencies program for Berlin-based artists! Out of over 170 applications – twice as much as in call of 2020 – three artists were invited for the first half of 2021. Thank you so much!

Our new resident artists are Isaiah Lopaz, Sharon Mercado Nogales and Moran Sanderovich.

We wish you an inspiring and inventive time during your residencies, and are looking forward meeting you!

Many thanks to all artists who applied! Again we enjoyed striving through your worlds of imagination, ideas, and desires! You are all welcome to submit your applications for the second call for 2021 which will be announced in Q2 2021.

This time the jury members were Cécile Bally, Jared Gradinger, and Sandra Man. The criteria emerged during the process of reading the applications and discussing them and the decisions were taken consensually. For the next round new juror artists will decide.

Here are the jury’s statements:

In his project Acts of Reparatory Citizenship, Isaiah Lopaz opens up a ‘collective‘ history; something bigger than any individual biography, a not yet shared history that affects and addresses all of us. He is working with a great variety of media, not for the sake of interdisciplinarity, rather reflecting the plurality of elements that construct and deconstruct origin and national membership. Isaiah is investigating the difference between art and politics in a way that doesn’t make the one serving the other but destabilises both of them, making space for new (dis)connections.

Sharon Mercado Nogales‚ project Earth Beings is accessing the contemporary topics climate catastrophe and decolonisation in a down to earth manner. She is connecting the local archive, provided by her family and ancestors in Bolivia, with planetary dimensions. She is investigating the specific presence of non-human beings – the mountains – and looking for ways to embody foot dance practices emerging from them. By working together with Kiana Rezvani, who grew up next to the mountains in Teheran, Sharon is opening up the potential of a shared geology across the planet.

Moran Sanderovich is working on the crossing of nature and synthetics, the organic and the mechanic, the familiar and the uncanny, the performing and the sculpted. She is creating something like organic subjects AND objects. They share movement and skin. It is the depth of the skin that comes to the foreground, the wounds, the blood, the scars, the embodiment of pain serving as motor of transformation. In her project Asastatica, she continues her investigation on an evolution of new bodies shaped by the strength of alterity and she follows her desire to enter in a physical relation with her sculptures.