ORTSBEZOGENE KUNST: Statement by Chris Haring (choreographer, artistic director
Liquid Loft)
Foreign Tongues & Stand Alones
Liquid Loft (c) M. Loizenbauer
Abteilung Ortsbezogene Kunst
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
