A Morphologic Journey I
(On the Borders of Our Bodies)
2011, Performance
Starting in 2011 as a 3-hour performance in four episodes, the performance is inspired by the journey of Ulysses under the aspect of his encounters with a variety of women. Splintering meetings with archetypes of Circe, Calypso, Nausicaa and Penelope are guideline analogies of behavioural patterns of people on the run, men and women in search to forget, longing for union and something that may finally last.
A Morphological Journey I
Performance
2011
La Promenade du Sceptique
2011, Performance
Inspired by the 1747 book La Promenade du Sceptique by Denis Diderot.
La Promenade du Sceptique
Performance
2011
Mephisto Waltz
2011, Performance
Based on the version Faust. Ein Gedicht by Nikolaus Lenau from 1836. The corporal actions are accompanied by Mephisto Waltz #1 by Franz Liszt (1859), played in an adaption for violin. A unique design pattern was created out of the musical composition.
Mephisto Waltz
Performance
2011
Balada Corporal
2010 - 2011, Performance cycle in 4 parts
The cycle speaks about the continuity of becoming, the difficulties of real encounters unleashing the physical boundaries of the body surface, and transformation through concrete communication. This shall help to overcome the actual frozen state of being to ingrain poetry into life by re-evaluating the necessity of honest and direct human interchange.
Balada Corporal
Performance cycle
2010
sin∞fin
Performances at the End of the World
2010, Trilogy episode short, 38'52" min
(producer, writer, director, performer)
Produced in Chilean Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, the first episode short of the sin∞fin trilogy focuses on the inner sphere of microcosm and the intimate domain of the individual and the couple. The trilogy of art films of collaborative performances in epic locations around the world teeters between the real and the visionary and is amplified by unfamiliar environments.
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Biography, Documentary, Drama, Environment, Science, Philosophy
sin∞fin
Performances at the End of the World
Performance-based film
2010
Places to Fall and Rise
(Hyle & Hybris)
2010, Performance
A women's prison in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The floor of the courtyard is painted with definitions: Place of Anger -– Place of You – etc. Upstairs, near the cells, the woman continuously dresses and undresses. Downstairs the man bashes a metal tube against the bars.
Places to Fall and Rise
Performance
2010
The Wedding
2010, Life project
A life project started in April 2010 during the Holy Week of the Raramuris in the Mexican desert of Sierra Tarahumara. It consists of a series of ritualistic actions about the Union.
The Wedding
Life project
2010
FRAGILE
global performance chain journey
2010, Global art initiative
Aiming to make one fragile object travel one time around the entire globe, from hand to hand and from artist to artist, over 750 artists from 75 countries and six continents had signed up to participate and create works of art with the fragile object-
The project got suspended in 2012, as unfortunately, the object was no more retrievable upon a transition from one artist to the next.
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FRAGILE global performance chain journey
Global art initiative
2010
One Earth's Dreaming
2009, Durational performance and installation
One Earth's Dreaming works on the importance of communication, and the ritualistic aspects involved in facilitating it, as well as a personal version of bypassing alienation. We cannot be passive, sit and wait for everyone else to exorcise their fear of communication and hold back in the process of recreating unity.
One Earth's Dreaming
Durational performance and installation
2009
FRATRES
2009, Durational performance
A meditative performance for two performers and a violinist. In a closed dark room, nine guests at a turn take place on chairs placed in a circle. Connected by the luminescence of a long scarf, they become one single body of light. The violinist plays the composition Fratres by Arvo Pärt, standing behind each of the persons for each of the nine segments of the piece. Only a small light is placed at the end of his bow.
FRATRES
Durational performance
2009
SUITEnovus
2009, Durational performance
SUITEnovus is a performance about angels, for one person at a time, in a hotel suite.
SUITEnovus
Durational performance
2009
Crossing
2009, Video, 4'05" min
A journey through isolation and reflection with pathogens as mnemonics of Deep Time.
Colonize
Video
2009
Crossing
2009, Video, 2'51" min
On a street corner that looks paved like a chessboard, people wander anonymously in opposing directions. They join each other and separate along two intersecting lines on the road, appearing and disappearing as if they echo the impermanence of life. There is a moment in which they double in perfect harmony, but direct communication is inexistent.
Crossing
Video
2009
Endangered Species
2008, Durational performance
Instability. Immobility. Pagnes, covered by pearls and glass powder, lies on a bed made of 300 glasses. Stenke shifts the empty glasses on which his body is not lying, and removes pearls with her mouth from the skin surface. Each empty glass is filled with one pearl. As he raises up from the glasses, his back is covered with marks. The remaining glasses outline the body’s shape on the floor. He blows gold leaves, and they rest in an embrace.
Endangered Species
Durational performance and installation
2008
Speak That I Can See You
2007, Durational performance and installation
An interactive itinerary on communication. Voices speak in three languages a text about fear. At the centre of the space, a body is offered as a canvas for thoughts. The visitors are invited to write with a feather or a nail on a naked back. It derives a blood-like effect, but the action is smooth and gentle. Stenke cancels the word with water and collects the liquid in a glass container, labelling it with the actual written word. Inspired by the sentence attributed by Erasmus to Socrates: Speak, so that I may see you [Loquere igitur, in quit, adolescents, ut te videam].