ORTSBEZOGENE KUNST: Statement by Chris Haring (choreographer, artistic director Liquid Loft)
Foreign Tongues & Stand Alones
Liquid Loft (c) M. Loizenbauer
Liquid Loft creates performances in close connection with the practice of other art forms. Across different
formats and spatial concepts, the works develop their own recognisable language of forms, realised through professional dance.
Choreographic action follows interests that point beyond dance, but always remains choreography. Interdisciplinary exchange
not only refers to the productive difference in aesthetic practice in the respective arts, but also sharpens the view of the
social environment in which the arts operate. The choreographic process returns to the performance situation.
Many of the artistic works contain installation elements or make use of the
formal language of other genres, such as film. Liquid Loft sees the development of these formats as a current and contemporary
challenge.
In Foreign Tongues, languages are first and foremost sound and rhythm, ambivalent islands of sound,
before they make "sense". Dialects, regional languages and slang are translated into movement sequences on the basis of dynamics,
emphasis and acoustic atmosphere. Language patterns - in the interplay of feeling and intellect - are musically grasped and
interpreted gesturally. What may initially seem like a Babylonian confusion of languages, becomes through the respective physical
embodiment in space, a form of communication that is much more than its purely linguistic content.
Stand-Alones
are various solo movement symphonies that are developed and realised at different performance venues. The concept was originally
developed for the Leopold Museum in Vienna and subsequently adapted for spaces such as the Musée des Beaux-Arts Nancy and
the Musée d'Art Moderne Paris, followed by versions in public spaces. The aim of filming in urban spaces or in the context
of special architecture, as well as in rural surroundings, was to expand the performance series into an online format, but
also to create an independent, cinematic work.
Chris Haring (A)
Choreographer, artistic director
Liquid Loft
One of his main influences of his work is science fiction and the human body as a cybernetic landscape.
In 2007 the company Liquid Loft won under his direction the Golden Lion for the Best Performance at the Biennale di Venezia.
(Posing Project B – The Art of Seduction) In 2010 he received the “Outstanding Artists Award” for performing arts from the
Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts (BMUKK). He has choreographed pieces for international groups such as Jin Xing Dance Theatre
(China), Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Dialogue Dance (Russia), Staatstheater Kassel, Contemporary Ballet Moscow, Balletto di
Roma und Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, Tanz Linz- Landestheater a.o.www.liquidloft.atwww.ortsbezogenekunst.at 
