Month: June 2022

Dienstag 21. Juni und Mittwoch 22. Juni 2022 – 20 – 21 Uhr
Das Künstlerinnen Duo Mountain River Jump! ist seit Anfang April 22 unser Gast. Für diese Residenz arbeiten wir mit dem Theater Neumarkt zusammen. Während ihres Aufenthaltes können Mountain River Jump! zusätzlich zum Gastatelier Gleis 70 die Aussenspielstätte Chorgasse und das Know How des Theater Neumarkts nutzen, um ihre performativen Projektideen umzusetzen.
Am 21. und 22. Juni öffnen sie zum zweiten Mal die Chorgasse und laden ein zur Performance fight in synchronicity. Beginn ist jeweils um 20:00 Uhr. Der Platz in der Chorgasse ist beschränkt, deshalb ist es notwendig, sich über die Webseite des Theater Neumarkts Tickets zu organisieren: https://www.theaterneumarkt.ch/en/kalender/mountain-river-jump/
Wir freuen uns über Euren Besuch!
Mountain River Jump!, das Gastatelier Team und Theater Neumarkt

Gastatelier Gleis 70, Hermetschloostrasse 70 , 8048 Zürich
www.gastateliergleis70.ch

Fight in Synchronicity – Mountain River Jump!
Time: 8pm~9pm, June 21, June 22
a performance at Chorgasse 5, Zurich
Theater am Neumarkt; in cooperation with Gleis 70; supported by Pro Helvetia
Ox or Cow is a strong metaphor for subconsciousness in Zen Buddhism. Mountain River Jump! is going to reveal the oriental scenarios growing from their mind in the “Fight in Synchronicity” with a section of shadow play. Inspired by the Swiss Hérens Cow Fight in Valais with a hundred years’ history, the twins-artists will incarnate as two cattle-headed beings, combat and sing through a series of behaviors that beyond a linear narrative. To their perception, this cow fight tradition embodies the sentiment towards nature and the existence of the Great Mother Archetype in Jungian theory. An implicative battle with long silent moments refers to integration rather than conflicts, like listening to the force in Tai Chi. In the earlier performances of Mountain River Jump!, they used to incarnate once as a roaring lioness, and two huge puppet-goddesses named Queen Mother of the West in ancient Chinese mythology.
Mountain River Jump! is an artist duo profoundly influenced by Jungian psychology, which was founded by identical twin sisters Huang Shan and Huang He (a.k.a. Yellow Mountain and Yellow River) in 2016. Mountain River Jump! pays attention to the embodiment of mythological clues in a daily context, reflecting on the materialist culture within modern China and its psychological status. Their recent participated projects: do it China 2021, Asia Society Triennial 2020 in New York, Buddhist Youths at Goethe-Institut Beijing in 2019. They are the artists of 2022 Residency Programme, Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council.
Capacity: 15 visitors each show
Ticket: PWYW. (PAY WHAT YOU WANT) at the ticket booth of Theater am Neumarkt in advance or order online
More info: https://www.theaterneumarkt.ch/en/kalender/mountain-river-jump/
Instagram: #mountainriverjump

TRACES IN SPACE #2
Friday, 17 June 22: 2-8 pm
Walk-in/walk-out ongoing installation
AiR studio, office Trakt A, first floor to the left, free entry

“Together with Swiss-Ukranian dancer Yevheniya Kravets and Kenyan sound artist/ambient composer Joseph Kamaru (KMRU) we will be sharing and trying out some of the process we’ve been working on in the form of a walk-in walk-out performance installation.
 
During my residency ‘Bodies in disPlacement’ I’ve been working around the idea of resonance. The way that things that happen in one place can have impact in other places. The ways we may or may not be (dis)connected. I’ve been contemplating how live performance may not be just ‘me here right now’ but ‘me you, here there, now then’. About performance as something that may be fragmented, extended and interacted across multiple time and geography. Working with different artistic collaborators over the past weeks we’ve specifically been thinking about presence & relationships of object and image; relationship of the performers body, movement, gesture and their image.
 
Using digital tools and creative programming we’ve been experimenting with a spatial and audio-visual installation that permits the performer to interact and improvise with their own image and the space about them. A sort of prototype of a more developed system. Interesting questions about autonomy and control have began to emerge. Who is in control? the performer or the image. How does the spectator perceive or engage with the dispositive.
We’ve also been looking at how this installation may function as a space with which visitors may engage.”
Opiyo Okach performer / choreographer / interaction designer and artist in residence April to June 2022

Other artistic collaborators who have contributed to the process include:
Waithera Rina Sch – dancer
Priscilla Mignon – dancer
Angela Stocklin – performer
Alejandro Olarte – electro-acoustic composer
Meret Schlegel – choreographer and coach
Yevheniya Kravets IG @yennykravets
Joseph Kamaru KMRU Website

IG Rote Fabrik, AiR Artists in Residence, Seestrasse 395, CH-8038 Zürich