CLINCH
at Galerie Bärenzwinger Berlin
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Taking the history of the Bärenzwinger bear enclosure as a starting point, the interdisciplinary performance company WILD ACCESS explores animals in captivity and an encounter with “the wild”. In creating a fictional, immersive environment, the performers fall into a “CLINCH”; a grapple at close quarters between the human and the non-human, between claws and jaws. The audience is invited into an extended choreography that slips across territories of domestication and ferocity.
REFERENCES In the Eye of the Wild (2019), Nastassja Martin Wild Things (2020), Jack Halberstam We Have Never Been Modern (1993), Bruno Latour The Feel Trio (2014), Fred Moten “The Rite of Spring: Shock of the New”, Jenny Gilbert “Le Sacre du Printemps”, Jacques Rivière |
Artistic direction & choreography: Beatrix Joyce
Performance & co-creation: Michela Filzi, Susanna Ylikoski, Savina Casarin, Hannah Schillinger, Imola Nagy Lights: Lena Gätjens Sound: Sebastian Faust Text: Beatrix Joyce, Michela Filzi Galerie Bärenzwinger Exhibition: In mir Draußen, 16.2.-28.4.2024 Performances on 19.04 / 20.04 / 21.04 at 9pm Many thanks to Galerie Bärenzwinger & Team, Philipp Hennch, Vanessa Goeppner, Joana Stamer, Theaterscoutings / PAP, Marisa Burkhardt, Kai Padberg, Evgenia Chetvertkova, Tamara Kanfer, Marie Pooth, Joséphine Auffray, Mariagiulia Serantoni, Adam Hilbert, Robert Stephani |
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Images by Alicja Hoppel
Research
The Bärenzwinger site
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History of the Berlin Bear Enclosure
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Sketch by Michela Filzi
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Bears at Zoo Berlin
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Sound research on site with Sebastian Faust
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Text research with Michela Filzi
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