ARBEIT UND FREIZEIT (2)
- FIESTA Y ENSAYO -
(July 2009)
"How does work look like? And how does artistic practice look like?
What does its look tell us about its goal, its cultural and social context?
What specifies an practice as artistic opposed to non-artistic activity?
The camera motor scans the surface of rehearsals, of manual labour, service and immobile-spiritual activities, procedures of (re-) production. Locations: Mexico City and Berlin.
"Arbeit und Freizeit (2) - Fiesta y ensayo" is a performative and modular installation work designed for a gallery space. Musicians, visual artists, viewers and collaborators share the same space, rehearsing a performance, performing a a rehearsal, producing practices and practicing products."
Daniel Kötter: Director
Daniel Kötter/Alina Rojas: Video
Javier Hinojosa: Instalación/Acción
Ignacio Baca-Lobera: Composición
Dario Bernal Villegas: Percusión
Willy Terrazas: Flauta
Ramón del Buey: Clarinete
Silvino Montes: Música
Daniel Kötter
Born 1975 in Köln, working as director and video artist with special interest in multiscreening and multiperspective video installations.
his video- and theatre works were shown at various international festivals, in concert halls, theatres and galeries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Portugal, USA and Mexico
among many others KW- Institute for contemporary art, Staatsoper Dresden, Konzerthaus Wien, maerzmusik, rencontres Paris/Berlin/Madrid, emaf Osnabrück.
His collaborative works include Ensemble Collegium Novum Zürich, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Apartment House London, object collection New York, Ensemble Mosaik, aroseis and the choreographers Sasha Waltz, Paul Gazzola and Petra Sabisch, video directing to music by Luigi Nono, Iannis Xenakis, Franco Evangelisti, Helmut Oehring (UA), Christoph Ogiermann (UA), Iris ter Schiphorst (UA), Jennifer Walshe (UA), Thierry Blondeau, Michael Beil (UA) and many others
since 2000 he is artistic director of labor für musik:theater berlin
2008/09 Daniel Kötter was fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart
