Warte (engl. Viewpoint)
Performance
The word Viewpoint can mean various things, e.g. an observation tower or, derived from it, a point of view such as: “…from my point of view”.
Videos of a performance
Members of the group Creative Dance from the dance studio of “Ich bin O.K.“.
Artistic direction: Edgar Lliuya | participants: Christa, Iris, David, Martin, Katharina, Claudia, Kristina | assistants: Tatyana Sharenkova, Nina Koppensteiner
The word Viewpoint can mean various things, e.g. an observation tower or, derived from it, a point of view such as: “…from my point of view”.
The performance is based on the story “The Black Spot“, in which an observation becomes a philosophical question: “On a white paper a dot is painted. What do you see there? Everyone sees the dot and beyond that nothing else but emptiness.”
A game of choreography and solos gives insight into the free expression of the performers, who transform physical and psychological obstacles into movements that show more than a black dot. They draw from their creative dance and design their own expression. The performers expose themselves in a world, that commonly perceives things from a different viewpoint.
Draft of an installation
Ten participants of the art workshop of KOMM, leisure center of the association “GIN”
Artistic direction: Edgar Lliuya | assistants: Renate Bender, Raphaela Voytischek
Due to COVID-19, the planned installation couldn’t take place. The activities of the workshop in “KOMM” have been resceduled to September 2020.
KOMM was founded in 1995 as a leisure centre of the GIN association and is a social space for people with disabilities. GIN, Association for Community Integration and Normalisation, offers assistance and support for people with intellectual or multiple disabilities in shared flats, training flats and in their own homes.
I am O.K. is an association for the promotion of social inclusion of people with and without disabilities through dance and theatre.
KUNSTGRIFF is an association for the promotion of contemporary art and culture based in Bad Vöslau.
Edgar Lliuya,* in Peru, is an artist and musician. Founder of the “Werkstatt für Leistungsabbau” for long-term art projects in schools (2007), and works among other things as an assistant for the association GIN. From 2005-2014 he was production manager of the show “FS SOHO”, okto.tv. He lives and works in Vienna.
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