Cross:Breeds @ WUK, Tag 1

Last night the three of us attended the opening night of Cross:Breeds, an intermedia performance festival at WUK (http://www.imflieger.net/english/projects/CROSSBREEDS/platform2009/program/). Lucky for us, we got festival passes so have 3 more nights to go. TOnight, in fact, we have an opening to attend at the MQ first, before heading to WUK.

Have i mentioned there's lots of art here?

Many of the pieces we saw / experienced last night were not very good. Here are glimpses at the few interesting ones that surprised us in very good ways:

1. Dudes Go Camping. Intermedia performance.
by Luke Baio (GB/A) & Dominik Grünbühel (A)
with Mathias Koch (drums, percussion, sound design), Alexander Gottfarb, Charlotta Ruth, Friedrich Brühl, Markus Simon, Christian Achazi und Radek Hewelt



This piece was SO unique, lots of fun. It involved immersion, dancing, music, film, performance art and pure craziness.
http://www.imflieger.net/deutsch/work/dudes2/

I only wish I had taken some video footage of it. It was SUPER cool.
I'm sure someone will eventually blog about it with video. Turns out I've been taking dance class with a member of the group so I'm very excited to see more!

2. Lektion 3. Video.
by Kenji Ouellet


http://www.imflieger.net/deutsch/work/lektion13/

This was just hilarious and very well done. It was a lesson in German language and..... etiquette? With subtitles :)

3. Ratas
by Lisa Truttmann



This was a well-executed video and sound installation involving dance for camera.

It was 6 flat screens hung in picture frames from wire from the ceiling. Each screen had a different environment (i.e. orange floor, pool, grass, etc). There were 5-6 dancers who would do movement in these screens and as they would pass through the edge of one, you'd see them in the next.. it was pretty darn cool. Like, they could push, swim, jump, climb from one screen to the next.