Paarungszeit: Ménage à trois

In the organizer's words:

As part of the Paarungszeit event series, three artists from Stuttgart and Strasbourg - Cindy Cordt (performance and media art), Arthur Poutignat (visual art, installations) and Tim Strohmeiner (sound and performance art) - will enter into an artistic dialog to develop a joint work. The project combines artistic research, aesthetic experiments and intercultural dialog and thus forms a bridge between Stuttgart and Strasbourg as well as within the European art scene. Over several days, they will try out methods, improvise with sound, space and performance and search for common themes and forms of expression. The audience is invited to experience both the creative process and the artistic result. On October 25, 2025, the three artists will present their joint work at HuMBASEpartout Stuttgart. Visitors can become part of the experiment - either as spectators or actively interacting with the performers.

Cindy Cordt is a performance and media artist based in Stuttgart. She studied media art at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and at the HGB in Leipzig. Cordt taught at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and has realized international projects in Strasbourg, Toulouse and Budapest, among others. As an actor, she is sensitive to the tension of the viewer. She develops symbols for social processes embedded in actions, almost provoking the desire to intervene in her performances.

Strasbourg-based artist Arthur Poutignat graduated from the Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR) in 2010. His works move between the visible and the invisible and question disciplinary and aesthetic boundaries. Poutignat's projects have been presented internationally, for example in Brussels, Prague, Leipzig and Pilsen (European Capital of Culture 2015). He is co-initiator of the "Festival des Arts mutants" in Strasbourg and the KINACT project in Kinshasa, which combines performative practice with social exchange. In addition to his artistic work, he teaches video at HEAR and develops collaborative formats with various target groups.

Tim Strohmeiner is an improvising musician. Drawing on this background, the sound artist expands his instrumentarium of drums, percussion and modular synthesizers with methods of sound installation, light and media art as well as music performance. The core of his artistic interest is working with and in processes that put our linear perception of time to the test. He tries to open up the artwork as a shared space between individuals and perspectives.