Performance - Installation
›How To Walk On Water‹ is a performance installation, that guides you through the virtual landscape, exploring the duality of human presence in our physical space and the space of the internet. You are invited to take a walk without moving, passing through the spaces in-between where our fragmented thoughts are floating. Come and reflect on this moment we usually experience alone in our rooms, in a collective of an audience through the performing non-humans.
Through the vast possibilities, all collected for us on the internet, we engage in the echo chambers guided by the internet algorithms. The intimacy we might look for is redirected from another to ourselves. Unlike the physical space we inhabit, the one we can measure, touch, smell and taste, the space of the internet draws one in, scrolls, scatters, collects and manipulates. Here one can find everything, but in the process, one can forget what it is one has set out to find.
Irena Kukrić was born in Belgrade and lives and works between Bremen and Berlin. Her practice and research relates to the absence of the human body in time-based, installative performances. Irena Kukrić studied scenography at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade and digital media at the University of the Arts in Bremen and is currently a doctoral candidate at the PhDArts Leiden. She realized installation performances for various galleries and festivals (including OUTNOW!). Irena Kukric has a teaching position and is coordinator and researcher in the research project ›The Dynamic Archive‹ at the University of the Arts Bremen.
CONCEPT/ARTISTIC DIRECTION/STAGE DESIGN Irena Kukrić
DRAMATURGY Iva Brdar, Irena Kukrić
PROGRAMMING & ELECTRONICS Julian-Anthony Hespenheide
SOUND DESIGN Chang Park
VOICE Kate Chen
PRODUCTION Nadine Becker
PRODUCTION ASSISTENT Peter Buczkowski
Based on a scene from the wikiHow manuals inspired play ›Tomorrow Is (For Now) Always Here‹ by Iva Brdar, translated by Ana Brdar. Performance rights Rowohlt Theater Verlag Hamburg. Supported by Senator für Kultur Bremen + Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung
Coproduction: Schwankhalle Bremen
tracks used:
Worth Search by Peter Fonda
Pumpkin Devotion by Porches