Vielschichtige Beziehungen zueinander bilden die Vorlage für den Prozess des Verlangens nach sich selbst. Uns interessiert das Zusammenspiel zwischen dem Rätsel des Begehrens und der Verletzlichkeit des Nichtbegehrtseins. Die spontane Performance mit Cecile Rossant, Stephanie Day, Melissa Derio und Jacob Boeno mit Texten von Cecile Rossant und Musik von und mit Hannes Buder verbinden sich mit der Malerei von Paul Erdmann. Das Bild und die Bewegung werden zu einem Spannungsfeld das Begehren und Isolation, Distanz und Nähe thematisiert.
Je l’appelais
mon amoureux du mois de mai
des jours qu’il était enfant
heureux tellement
je le laissais
quand personne ne voyait
être
mon amoureux du mois de mai
même en décembre
enfant et tendre
quand nous marchions enlacés
la forêt était toujours
la forêt de notre enfance
nous n’avions plus de souvenirs séparés
il embrassait mes doigts
ils avaient froid
il disait les mots
que disent les amoureux du mois de mai
j’étais seule à entendre
On n’écoute pas ces mots-là
Pourquoi
On écoute le coeur qui bat
On croit pouvoir toute la vie les entendre
ces mots-là tendres
Il y a tant de mois de mai
toute la vie
à deux qui s’aiment.
Alors
ils l’ont fusillé un mois de mai
(Charlotte Delbo)
I have to talk about another color shape present in this painting. The flesh-colored … the caucasian flesh-colored shape … (do I have to position it?) It’s to the right of the man and flush with the wall but not modeled to emerge as a 3-dimensional form. Yes, it is flat, but nevertheless when I look at it I see the fragment of a body … eg, a bent knee … What the hell is it doing there? To me it feels like a suspended memory of the presence of another body — a human body — we represent ourselves with skin and with outlined body parts. With language we can describe and divide our bodies into parts.
(Cecile Rossant)
Born in Wrocław, Poland in 1970. Emigrated to West Germany in 1989.
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1995 to 2002 and at the HKU University of Arts in Utrecht, the Netherlands. In 2010 emigrated to Costa Rica. Lives and works in Berlin, Wrocław and Middle America.
Hannes Buder (born 1978 in the former GDR) is a german guitarist, cellist and composer, whose work gaines from a disparate range of influences, including minimal music, 20th century classical music, jazz and avantgarde rock. After studying electric guitar in Dresden he relocated to Berlin, where he became involved with the experimental music scene. He played in numerous projects ranging from completely improvised music to completely composed music, and the transistion area in between. Besides that, Buder has always been a composer and music inventor himself, creating a large collection of solo compositions, first for electric guitar, and later for cello and voice, documented on his five solo albums. He also composed for smaller and larger ensembles, including four compositions for 25 piece orchestra.
Buder also frequently works with dancers, in larger companies or in duos. He composed, performed and recorded music and sound for film and theatre.
The musicians and composers that Buder collaborated with include Nicole Mitchell, Todd Capp, Andrew Lafkas, Helmut Öhring, Thomas Noll, Hannes Lingens, Luc Houtkamp, Audrey Chen, Tony Buck, Audrey Lauro, Hilary Jeffery, Mike Majkowski, Steve Heather, and many more.
Cecile Rossant, born and raised in New York City, is a writer and performer who applies a multidisciplinary approach to all her work. After earning a BA in Biology she apprenticed in the studio of the painter and architect Arakawa, an experience which inspired her to study architecture. She received a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and worked several years at the offices of Arata Isozaki & Associates in New York, Tokyo and Berlin, where she has lived since 1995.
She is the author of the novels Tokyo Bay Traffic (Red Hen Press 2008), Underground New York (Cornelsen Verlag 2006) and the collections of short fiction About Face (Red Hen Press 2004) and Microfictions in collaboration with the artist Nana Suzuki (Pluraal Verlag 2021). Her stories and poems have appeared in many journals including Salt Hill, Exberliner, The Crucifix is Down, Bordercrossings, Graensen Grenzen, and the London Review. Her third young adult novel Fractured will be published by Cornelsen Verlag at the end of 2024.
In 2019, Rossant joined Marcozzi Contemporary Theater Ensemble performing in the company's productions of McBeth (2019), On Urgency*Pilot (2020), and On Urgency*Nesting (2021-2022). She was also a member of PAN/k Theater Company, created in Berlin in 2020 and took part in the urban performative interventions project Dreams on Target.
Rossant wrote and performed The Butcher, a solo performance piece that premiered in 2022 at the Expedition Metropolis Theater, Berlin.