, June 6, 2016
In her second post, dance artist and IRC-Fellow Johanna Devi reports from her first weeks at the Center and explains how a photo of a forrest can say it all. read more
, December 16, 2014
"33 rpm and a few seconds" by Lina Saneh and Rabih Mroué. Photo © Sarmad Louis On stage, we see a private room: a rug, a chair, a table with personal items … on the floor, a TV set and a stereo. Diyaa Yamout seems to have gone out briefly to fetch cigarettes or to meet friends. He should be coming back any minute … Or someone else should be coming … After all, someone has to come. But no one does. read more
, December 4, 2014
Symposium "Actor Training." (2) © Thomas Martius read more
, November 27, 2014
Symposium "Actor Training." (1) © Thomas Martius read more
, November 17, 2014
Filmscreening during Dumb Type Symposium This paper discusses the idea of new media dramaturgy in connection to dumb type performances and outlines some of the notions that apply to the concept of interweaving performance cultures and new media. In this context, it explores dumb type's pioneering suite of multimedia performances pH, S/N, OR and Memorandum as the basis for an emergent transformation in performance towards the development of new forms. read more
, November 7, 2014
Symposium "Dumb Type – The Birth of New Media Dramaturgy." © Thomas Martius read more
, October 20, 2014
Workshop with Jean-Luc Nancy. © Thomas Martius read more
, July 30, 2014
Lunch Lecture with Tim Ingold. © Thomas Martius read more
, February 20, 2014
Glass slide image by Eadweard Muybridge, 1880s This essay is based on a paper the author presented during the Symposium Dumb Type – The Birth of New Media Dramaturgy at Freie Universität Berlin in April 2013. It focuses on Lovers (1994) – the first moving-image installation work of Teiji Furuhashi, viewed within the framework of the histories of immersive moving-image projection environments involving human figures in performative movement. Alongside Lovers, it examines a film-projection experiment, The Birth, shown at the Expo ’70 in Osaka involving the work of Tatsumi Hijikata. The final part of this essay extends back to 1893 to look at the originating event for all projections of moving-images within specially-designed, enclosed spatial environments: Eadweard Muybridge’s project to create the first-ever space for the projection of moving-images to public audiences, through the construction of his ‘Zoopraxographical Hall.’ read more
, June 28, 2013
Workshop with Homi K. Bhabha © Thomas Martius read more