“…The artist is present at the birth of Berlin's new contemporary dance centre, an institution that will certainly come to play a part in shaping and organizing the dynamic of the city's dance community...”
from a catalog, Sommer.bar/ Tanz Im August 2010
Transformance is a video-event-work that activates and documents a five-month durational performance.
Over this period of time, Nina Kurtela establishes a daily practice of visiting and witnessing the changes at the building site of the Uferstudios, Wedding, Berlin - the warehouse for the repair of public trams and buses becomes a dance institution. She is spectator to the making of an institution, an art institution, the making of the theatre stage. The camera acts as a witness to her performing/witnessing.
The piece emerges as a case study of an individual subject's encounter with the radical transformations of social structures and operative models within the performing society. The artist is present at the birth of Berlin's new contemporary dance centre, an institution that will certainly come to play a part in shaping and organizing the dynamic of the city's dance community.
The work emerges in the force field of a commitment to the daily execution of present-ness in relation to the specific context where this act takes place: the building site of the theatre.
What unfolds is a 8-minute work with multi-faceted implications. The body is rendered a statue through the changes of time. The screen becomes the performing skin.
Length of the durational performance: 100 days (22.02 ' 07.08. 2010)
(aus dem Programmzettel der Uferstudios)
Alf Chojnacki,Roy Thorsten,Ingo Kowalkowski,Ingo Becker,Danny Heine,Jens Stein,Christopher Liebke, Silvio Flücken,Jens Gorgast,Holger Wegner,Andres Müller,Anatoli Weber,Hans Rogalski,Siggi Gröschke,Maik Richter,Lothar Schulze,Olaf Herrmann,Marc Riedel,Mike Nielebock,Steven Grüner,Holger Knuth,Marco Ebert,Steffen Ritter,Peter Bittner,Jürgen Pfeifer,Jens Bleschschmidt,Jan Leeb,Roland Simchen,Michael Schönfeld,Thomas Weißner,Christow Hering,Udo Rennebarth,heinz herlitz,Marysia Zimpel,Gilad Ben Ari,Isabelle Schad,Franz Anton Cramer,Martin Sonderkamp,Hanna Sybille Müller,Barbara Friedrich,Eva-Maria Bakardjiev,Felix Mathias Ott,Anat Eisenberg,Dmitry Paranyuskin,Andrej Mirčev,Mara Nedelcu,Michael Norton,Justin Francis Kennedy,Saša Kovaevi,Milka Djordjevich,Dragana Bulut,Jessica Taylor,Janja Sesar,Ligia Manuela Lewis,Marija Merkwelt Ivošević,Ivana Vukšić,Barbara Greiner,Lito Walkey,Ehud Darash,Alexander Baczynski-Jenkins,Maya Dalinsky,Eric Green,Kattrin Deufert und Thomas Plischke