vague horde disrepair in blue clay accretion

A project by note on for the project space festival in Berlin

... and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism... Frank O’Hara, Having a Coke with You, 1966 6:00 pm Meeting at the Rhododendron in the front yard of Riemeisterstraße 159, Berlin-Zehlendorf (U3 Onkel Toms Huette). The journey to the lake and the performances starts at 6.30 pm. Please be on time. It will be difficult to find us otherwise. In case of rain the meeting point remains. Eilis McDonald

7:00 pm

Sonja Gerdes & Allison Peacock
»Expert Eraser«
Using cryptic signals, which inhabit the landscape and reveal secrets of the elements. Coincidental gestures x-ray the body's hypersensitivity. We find you here before the moment of immanent darkness. Bring your towels and bathing suit to chill on the shores.

7:30 pm

Faye Green »Letters to my ribcage«
»gills grow slowly - too late slits split down my side and if only I could
- wait it out -
breathe through this stitch
I could learn how to swim again...
the days escape me and I try to make amends on my torso.«

Sonja Gerdes (born 1979, Clarholz, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include »Abstract Action« (2014) at Gallery Syster in Lulea, Schweden, Material Edition (2014) Los Angeles, Light and Wire Gallery (2014) Los Angeles, »Sole Searching« (2013) at Laura Mars Gallery, »Composite Structures: Low Accumulations« (2013) at Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, »Unblinking Eye« (2012) at Kavi Gupta in Berlin, »Pie Of Trouble. Let's Hang. The Energy Plan« (2012) at Elephant in Los Angeles, »Gyre And Gimble« (2011) at Galerie Gebr. Lehmann in Berlin, »informell natur" (2011) at Galerie Sabine Knust in Munich, and »XXXL Die Schmiede featuring Talisman for Oxygenenergizer« (2011) at Galerie Lena Brüning in Berlin. Gerdes is a member of the project-space Infernoesque, which hosted a unique project »Die lustige Grube« in summer 2013 in Berlin.

Allison Peacock is a Canadian artist currently based in Berlin. She holds a BA from the University of Toronto in Political Science and Visual Studies, completed the School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s Professional Dance Training Program, and in March 2014 completed the MA Solo/Dance/Authorship Program at the UdK. She has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts for training periods in Vienna, Brussels and New York, studying a wide range of dance techniques including improvisation, Klein Technique, Alexander Technique, ballet, and various contemporary repertory works. She has worked as a dancer and performer for Maria Baroncea, Aimee Dawn Robinson, Dancemakers, Ame Henderson/Public Recordings, and Barbara Lindenberg. Her primary focus has been creating video and performance pieces, having had solo and collaborative works shown at ADA, Infernoesque, The Canada Dance Festival, Pleasure Dome’s New Toronto Works Show, !Rhubarb, Extermination Music Nights (Toronto), and Movement Research at the Judson Church.

Faye Green (born 1989, Sheffield, UK) is a live artist and writer currently based in the North-East of England. With a visual arts background, her practice draws from multiple disciplines including theatre, dance and performance studies. Central to her practice is a negotiation between discursive modes and embodied knowledge, with much of her work exploring the telling of bodily histories. Deeply influenced by French Feminist thinkers such as Cixous and Irigaray, her work looks to the performative potential of the text to »write the body«. Resisting discourses of disappearance and performance ontologies that position the live moment at the vanishing point, Faye works with notions of mimesis, re-enactment, rehearsal and re-vision to open up a space for a sense of time that is unstable, mutable and tactile.

Eilis McDonald (born 1982, Sligo, Ireland) is an independent artist based in Dublin, Ireland. McDonald’s practice incorporates installation, painting, animation, video and digital technologies. Working through a highly developed language of visual energy, McDonald uses a mixture of images and found objects sourced online and from her immediate physical surroundings. Sometimes incorporating the work of other artists and peers she creates installations that simultaneously traverse physical, mental and networked landscapes while blurring the boundaries of authorship and ownership. She has presented work at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Altes Finanzamt, Berlin; 319 Scholes, New York; Stadium Gallery, New York; and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Nebraska among other spaces (both online and offline).