Credits:
Concept / Artistic Direction / Video: Hiroko Tanahashi
Dramaturgy: Max Schumacher
[Short Documentation
Video: skinSITEs ver. XI cell / out]
"skinSITEs" is an ongoing series of site-specific
video-performances. After venues in Germany, Slovenia, Croatia and
Switzerland the project now has reached Japan. The concept is a
traveling concept that is produced completely anew for each version
| each time with a local dancer and a local gstoryh that reflects
the history and the present of a building. To be more specific:
the performance space is always a window or door, hence, an in-between
space that is covering one space from the outside.
" Windowh comes etymologically from gwind eyeh, as much
as a gfacadeh is the gfaceh of a building. So skinSITEs merges
the body of a building and with the body of a performer | it plays
with hiding bodies and revealing them. Hide-and-seek is not just
a childrenfs game, but a technique to approach ontology: in absence
you can find presence.
post theater works frequently on what we call gstaging disappearanceh.
Theater | the gplace of seeingh becomes a space where perception
| and the lack of it - is challenged. We live in times of permanent
availability of visual and other information. By intentionally reducing
and de-constructing media perception, post theater tries to enhance
the media that constitute a live performance | including the live
bodies of a building, and a dancer.
<History>
title
venue/date
1
Olga's
Wall
Brewery
into ruin
2002/DessauiGermanyj
Dancer/choreographer: Ana Vilenica
2
turn
over
Theater
in transition
Theater am Halleschen Ufer
2003/BerliniGermanyj
Dancer/choreographer: Kathinka Walter
3
re:current@
Power
station into a dance thetater
City of Women Festival
2004/ Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Dancer/choreographer: Valentina Ciabro
4
archLive
Inbetween
an archive and a cafe
Patravadi Theater
2004/BangkokiThailandj
Dancer/choreographer: Saroche gTimh Placktag
5
rawHide
Tannery
into sculpture museum
Dance Week Festival
2005/ZagrebiCroatia)
Dancer/choreographer: Selma Banic
6
larger
larger
Brwery
into cultural complex
Stromereien Festival
2005/ZurichiSwitzerlandj
Dancer/choreographer: Nurya Egger
7
open
account
Harbour
storage into art space
BankART 1929
2005/Yokohama (Japan)
Dancer/choreographer: Alice Hiiragi
8
PrePhase
Fame
in transition
Yamaguchi Center for Media Arts
2005/YamaguhiiJapanj
Dancer/choreographer: Richi Owaki
9
Past
Tune
Japanese
radio station into human rights museum
Taipei 228Memorial Museum
2007/Taipei (Taiwan)
Dancer/choreographer: Der-Fong Ke
10
Angel
Angle
A
church
2007 /Street Art Festival
Porec (Croatia)
Dancer/choreographer: Zak Valenta
11
Cell
Out
a
former prison turned into a contemporary art museum
DA2 / 2008 / Festival Castila y Leon, Salamanca (Spain)
Dancer/choreographer: Alicia Soto
12
Cargography
A
town square in transformation
2008 /Rijeka Summer Night Festival
Rijeka (Croatia)
Dancer/choreographer: Selma Banich, Zak Valenta