ORTSBEZOGENE KUNST: Statement by Chris Haring (choreographer, artistic director Liquid Loft)
Foreign Tongues & Stand Alones
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
