SPIELART Festival: Spirit Plastic

In the organizer's words:

In the summer of 1927, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven - Dadaist poet, nude model and proto-punk - wrote a letter to the patron Peggy Guggenheim. With apocalyptic urgency, she conjures up her latest project: a studio for experimental modeling, which is supposed to mean her artistic comeback and thus a way out of her existential misery. Peggy Guggenheim shows interest, but does not pay. Shortly afterwards, the artist took her own life. Almost a century later, 'Bruch' takes up this forgotten episode in the history of performance art and re-imagines Baroness Elsa's Parisian studio as a resonance chamber for today's dilemmas of artistic work and identity. Together with dancer Frances Chiaverini, composer Stanislav Iordanov, author Théo Casciani and others, they explore models of art and life in the face of an economically, politically and spiritually precarious present. The second performance will be accompanied by the solo performance SPLENDOUR with choreographer and dancer Martina De Dominicis.