Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm ›subjoyride‹

In the organizer's words:

Dance / Performance

'subjoyride' invites the audience to enter into a physical dialog with the poetic work of the German Dadaist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927) through a series of performative acts.

In their new production, Berlin choreographer and performer Boglárka Börcsök and filmmaker and artist Andreas Bolm continue their joint artistic exploration of the personal, emotional and historical - venturing into the grotesque and marginalized. Using voice, gestures, music and physical presence, the duo explore the Baroness's multi-layered personality and eccentric work, which combines elements of poetry, performance and sculpture - a scatological cosmos that oscillates between the abject and the grotesque.

They playfully combine the visceral poetics of the Baroness with a forensic discourse: they speculate on the actual authorship of the famous ready-mades Fountain - the upside-down urinal traditionally attributed to Marcel Duchamp, but now increasingly associated with the Baroness.

'subjoyride' thus becomes a performative journey through the mechanisms of the hegemonic art canon - and reveals how cultural and social structures are perpetuated through canonization and canalization.

Artistic concept, dramaturgy, music, scenography Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm Performance Boglárka Börcsök Text Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm Lighting & technical direction Catalina Fernández Sound design Neda Sanai Costume design SADAK Production assistance Beatrice Zanesco Vocal coach, Musical consultant Vera Jónás Artistic consultant Susanne Sachsse Production, distribution Nicole Schuchardt, Rodrigo Zorzanelli 3D print "Fountain" Daniel Valencia Ferrá / Digital Craft

Language English spoken language, partly German spoken language

A production by Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm. In co-production with Black Box Theater, PACT Zollverein and Sophiensaele.

Funded by: Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Supported by: NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Koproduktionsförderung Tanz, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

With the kind support of: Tanzfabrik Berlin e. V. and Centre Français de Berlin, Kristina Konrad - Weltfilm. Thanks to: Dragana Bulut, Jule Flierl, Christiane Hommelsheim.

Poems by Baroness Elsa Freytag von Loringhoven, referred to in the performance:
Coachrider (ca. 1924)
Mefk Maru Mustír Daas (1918)
They won't let go fart (ca.1923-1925)
Graveyard surrounding nunnery (ca. 1921)
To whom it may concern (ca.1922)
Fix (ca. 1924-1925)

The title of the performance is borrowed from the poem Subjoyride (ca. 1920-1922).