Strategies Of Magic #2

Summary

Strategies Of Magic #2 was presented as a part of the performance project Funeral Charade Of Poses – Ein Abend Mit Freundinnen Und Basso. The event took place at Hebbel Am Ufer 1 in Berlin in September 2011 and constituted the finale and the end of the cultural platform basso berlin in Kreuzberg after 7 years of amazing events and arrangements.Participating artists were Adi Khalif, Angeldust, Annika Eriksson, Annika Lundgren with Clara Lopez, Baltazar Castor, Beatrice and Lisa Jugert with Camilla Storgaard, Doireann D., Trine Lund, Anna Mields, Bernhard Wolf Koppmeyer, Chloe Griffin & Gwenaël Rattke, Christophe Chemin, Daniel Cremer, Daniel Wang, Denise Palma Ferrante, Discoteca Flaming Star & Guests, Femme Façade, Francisco Berna, Heike Föll, Jean-Michel Wicker, Johannes Paul Raether mit Frank Eickhoff und Rein Vollenga, Jon Campbell, Karl Holmqvist, Lemercier, Linda Franke, Lynda Revol, Malin Arnell, Nösler, Pedro Castro, Philip Wiegard with Neda Sanai, Norbert Witzgall, Thomas Bratzke & Ryotetsu Masuda, Sabina Maria van den Linden, Sebastian Lee Philipp, Sergio Roger, Susanne M. Winterling, Voin de Voin & Andrew Ferron Smith, Wolfgang Müller, Yorgos Sapountzis, Yusuf Etiman

Supported by

Statens Kunstråd, Danmark

Description of project

General: Strategies of Magic is a lecture performance which discusses the concept of magic in relation to political and philosophical questions regarding power structures, hierarchies of knowledge, identity and gender. Here, the lecture is intertwined with poetry, music and magic where the purpose is to reveal rather than disguise the trick. Through the examination of the difference between trickery and transformation, this piece aims to bring out the human potential of making the impossible possible. Strategies of Magic #2: Given the special set-up of the arrangement where people were continuously moving through the house, I had isolated and developed a number of magic tricks which were performed in the bar/lounge of the theater every 20 minutes throughout the evening, each announced by a male voice-over, delivering different observations about the nature and the conditions of the illusionist. The magicians assistant on this occasion was Clara Lopez.