"I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Mans" William Blake (1757-1827)

Our theme is also SURVIVAL, and we have already been working on it for ten years. Here in Berlin, we examine the remnants of folk culture. We work with what still remains of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarussian singing rituals, search and enjoy arguing about the question of authenticity, however one understands it and lives it, here in the big city.

GoGo Trash (Germany) Music: Dr. Nexus

we are survivors
we are surviving
we survive
eternalize

Gogotrash group. Situated in Berlin. Always dressed in waste and through the costumes and the collective group dynamic, moving in a field where garbage fetishism turns into focused expressive transformation.
(on the path of eternal survival )

Ingrid Kristensen und Ensemble (Denmark) www.ingrid-kristensen.com

Dance & Dance & Dance
perceive your dance
dance your senses
silent dance
ecstatic dance
mythical dance
sense & dance your inner dance

Invalid Address (Spain/Berlin) Irene Pascual, Reyes Perez, Sonia Orfila, Jacqueline Tauil & Paco Vallejo www.invalidaddress.org       El Chivo del Diablo / The Demon Billy Goat EL despertar de la nueva apocalípsis / The awakening of the new apocalypse

Invalid Address ist eine experimentelle Plattform für Performancekunst. Passend zum genreübergreifenden Ansatz, beschäftigen sie sich ihrer Arbeit mit den Überschneidungen und Widersprüchen, die durch die Mischung unterschiedlicher Sprachen entstehen: Körper, neue Medien, bildende Kunst, Objektkunst, Konzeptionierung und Theorie; wobei ein besonderer Schwerpunkt dem Humor und den menschlichen Narrheiten gilt.

Seit 2007 sind sie an verschiedenen Veranstaltungsorten in Berlin, wie den Sophiensaele und dem HAU und in Spanien u.a. beim Domino Loop Festival aufgetreten.

John Power (Deutschland     john-power-art-life.blogspot.de Facebook: G11 Galerie (Berlin) Facebook: John Power (Berlin)

SENDUNG - TRANSMISSION.
A performance by John Power, an Irish installation and performance artist based in Berlin. Transmission Engineers: Stuart McClean, Grant Price & Raymond Romanus with special guest: From Russia the Classical singer Tatjana Alexandrowa.
Have we finally allowed ourselves to be enslaved technologically as well as mentally? Have we been so conditioned that we have forgotten our origins and who we are? Have we lost our sense of joy and spontaneity? Have we lost our way? Have we disconnected the child from the mother......our mother? Have we cut the cord?

Composition for 15 Alarm Clocks
Les Trotteuses is a hybrid sound art project including installation, concert, and performance. The visual artists Anne Moirier and Aurélie Pertusot have been working together since 2008 as Weckerspielerinnen/Alarm Clock Players. They develop various compositions from the alarms produced by their alarm clock orchestra, symbolizing the beginning of the work day. The concert performance "Composition for 15 Alarm Clocks" is an invitation to resist this call to order. In an isolated room, like a laborary, during a spatiotemporal cut, they will play a repetitive and rhythmic composition with the help of 15 alarm clocks to create a jet lag for the audience.

Open Space Performunion (Germany)

"The Field of Freedom is Shrinking and Freedom Needs a Field" Paul Virillo

The Open Space Performunion was founded by Michael Steger in 2005 in response to an invitation to tour as a performance group at the Diverse Universe Festival, organized by NON GRATA in Estonia. A steadfast ensemble had already been creating diverse performance events together in different constellations within the circles of Open Space, which was founded in 1998 with the aim of collectively transforming any time and space; the public space, the museum, commercial space, and theatre space into real time live art happening. The process of becoming a performance art collective was a simple and organic response to that which was already existent in the Open Space artistic community, for the interest and feeling of necessity for expressing ourselves through the medium of Performance Art had united us.

The members of this nomadically changing group, Michael Steger, Philip Brehse, Luz Scherwinski, Lars Crosby, Amy J. Klement, Andreas Stadler, as well as short termed collaborators, Berlin based and also International Performance artists such as Kim Baek-ki, Franziska Bosse, Im Malys, Jessica Slote and Nicholas Vargelis, to name a few, are rather extreme in their differences, backgrounds and approaches to performance, and that is possibly the essence of what is unique about us, and that which keeps our works fresh and unexpected. The Performunion has performed at numerous locations in Berlin, (Theatres, Galleries, shopping malls, clubs, U and S-Bahn, parks, nomans land, beaches and in street intersections), and toured abroad extensively at International Festivals in Estonia, Finland, Denmark, France, Italy, South Korea, Toronto, Canada and N.Y.C.

The Digital Dramaturgy Lab (Canada) Antje Budde, Myrto Koumarianos, Karyn McCallum, Don Sinclair, William J. Mackwood, Michael Reinhardt & Nazli Ahktari presenting "Stare. Print. Blue. Voyeuring the Apparatus" digitaldramaturgy.wix.com/main

Slowness is one of the biggest provocations possible today. We live in times of rapid acceleration. In physics, acceleration is the rate at which the velocity of an object/body changes over time. But acceleration is also present in the rapid capitalist production that is heating up the scales of desire and consumerism while destroying the resources of our planet.
Everything needs to happen in an instant and it needs to be translated into results, products, and real-time ranking. Data streams are racing through our bodies and through the machines/apparatuses/computers that we use and mostly don't understand. We're starting to wear them as wearable technology, providing ourselves with constant statistics on our being, thinking, and feeling. No time for process, for critical making, creation, experience, contemplation.
Brecht, writing on taking the time to think about the relationship between artists' naïve assumptions of independence and their dependence on a socio-cultural apparatus within which they work, comes to the conclusion: Thinking that they are in possession of an apparatus, which in reality owns them, they defend an apparatus over which they no longer have any control. (Brecht GW 17, pp.1005f.)
The "Blue Brain Project" is currently trying to create a synthetic, computer-based human brain. Banking machines radiate blue light non-stop. Smart phone apps like the color blue. Let's stare into the apparatus and see the desire for the color blue evolve in a woman-machine creature, a modern-day Centauris' virtual acceleration and material mess colliding in slow-mo. Patience. Anxiety. Fear. Fascination. Endurance. You will be on the street, staring into the machine monitor/window until the obvious blurs and starts to make sense. Take the time. Be brave. Survival in/with slowness. Slowness is beauty. Go slow: A form of industrial action in which employees work at a deliberately slow pace. (A Dictionary of Business and Management, 2014)

Through transforming nature into a substitute nature, human beings are able to survive under the most varied conditions. The Trash Queen in a dress of white plastic bags performs the substitute nature that is created as culture: trash bags are ubiquitous and can - depending on their size - be used not only as bags for carrying things but also be utilized for SURVIVAL: as a tent, as protection against cold and rain, as a water container, and can also be reused multiple times. In a scream-dance, the Trash Queen, aka ADLER A.F., shows how human beings shape the world so that it serves their purposes.
The stage design calls to mind the Pacific Garbage Patch, a carpet of plastic garbage in the Pacific Ocean that is larger than Central Europe and points to the problems that human beings have in dealing with plastic garbage.

Alice Masprone (Italy) abstract survival kit

ABOUT SURVIVAL

Survival is first of all a basic instinct that is deeply related to any kind of being.
We fight to survive before this becomes a need.
As animals, we fight to survive before rationally knowing that our survival is in danger.
Mice change their breathing and move faster before cats hunt them-cats have also already jumped away when we try to catch them.

Often we have more difficulties surviving when we use language. Our tendency as people in a particular society is to seek for a meaning for it. The environment we have created is structured in a way that we get to say: I am surviving....
As a refugee/prisoner
As man/woman/child
As a minority
As a black person
As a worker
As a foreigner
As someone infirm/disabled
As a philosopher
As a reporter
As a nation
As an institution
As a citizen
As a mother/father
As a senior
As a teacher
As a scientist
As a doctor
As an artist... or any other noun that comes to mind.
In the time that it takes for us to formulate this 'as', we take away something from our instinct and in this sense act slower, since we put something in between: we think.

We are forced to react through thinking by war, hunger, the environment, politics, people, violence, information, culture. Only very few extreme situations can bring us to move before thinking. As human beings, we have built the trap into which we fall.

Now I can strain my brain wondering if it's possible to go back to instinct, to divest ourselves of language, to go back to a primary simple status of being...
And only then, perhaps, will I understand what survival is.

Andreas Stadler (Germany)

LEBEN - ERLEBEN - AUFLEBEN - VERLEBEN - AUSLEBEN - SCHÖNLEBEN - ABLEBEN - LIEBESLEBEN - WEGLEBEN -
VORLEBEN - TRAUMLEBEN - ARBEITSLEBEN - ARMLEBEN - KUNSTLEBEN - HOCHLEBEN - KRISENLEBEN - ÜBERLEBEN!
There is such multi-dimensional life around the world, yet only survival has real meaning!
Surviving as an artist requires art:
along with the aid of food, water, and air. Intellegence and education nourish our actions and the five deadly sins prepare the basis! Survival is an eternal cycle along with death.

Try to survive. Survive or cross.
Crossing serenity and chaos
Crossing the "I" and the "you"
Crossing reality
Crossing dreams
Through a space
A space to change and to be changed
With action here and now
Action as a poem
Because
Because ...
"May the poetry of life be our absolute weapon" * Raoul Vaneigem

Living is surviving and consuming. When consumption is greater than what is necessary to live and becomes a commercial life style, a collision happens; like our collapsing society where the poor are barely able to consume and the rich continue to create this big gap between human beings through branding consumerism, games, and rules. How does one survive in such a monopoly as capitalism and continue to be creative and positive?
Awareness, anger, and hunger transformed into surviving power and resistance, into a fight for choice and our right to food and clothing that is not modified or controlled but determined by ourselves?

Oh, now go. Walk out the door. Don't turn around now cause you're not welcome anymore. - Gloria Gaynor.

"White Wedding"
My project focuses on transmigration and in particular people who move abroad and are eventually forced to get married for papers. It examines the questions surrounding immigration policies, fake marriages and the drastic measures which people have to take in order to ensure their survival in a foreign country. I am focusing on women who need to get married abroad to avoid their traditional patriarchal duties in their local communities. This performance will also look at how men are implicated in arranged marriages to local or foreign women which may help them attain a more honorable place in their families.

Luz Scherwinski (Germany) Videokünstler, Fotograf und Dj.

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” Albert Einstein

"Nothing will more greatly enhance the health and chances for surviving of human beings on the earth as taking the step toward vegan nutrition" Luz Scherwinski

Organizer of the Survival - International Performance Festival

Patrick Jambon (France) www.turbojambon.de

"Supervival": The project has its origins in the image of street vendors, who carry their equipment on their own bodies. Inspired by this form, I design portable structures. They serve as platforms for exchange and gaming, as an extension of the body intended to create interaction with the audience. The idea is to imagine strategies against precariousness in the form of new occupations.