BALL THEATER ENTER THE FACTORY
10.05. - 28.07.2024
a program of
Music | Performance | Architecture
curated by
Studio Muoto
Georgi Stanishev + Clémence La Sagna
Lennart Wolff
Tickets for the event are available at TixForGigs and at the box office.
10.05.2024
3pm - 5pm Performances:
HGB, Academy of fine arts Leipzig, Klasse für Performative Künste & Friends (Isabel Lewis) & Paris-Malaquais school of architecture (Frank Minnaërt)
9 pm | Exotourisme
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster | Julien Perez
(Admission 20:00)
10pm | Liveset
Bauernfeind | Perra Inmunda (Live from Earth)
Box office 20 €
"Ball Theater is an installation designed to awaken our desire for utopia."
Studio Muoto, Atelier Georgi Stanishev
"Enter the Factory" is the second chapter of Ball Theater, the French contribution to the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. The modular metallic half-sphere of the Ball Theater will symbolically return from a site of presentation to a site of production, exiting the French Pavillion's beaux-arts interior in Venice for an open-air site in the center of the Techne Sphere Leipzig. Clad in a blue welding curtain, the newly conceived and radically expanded Ball Theater evokes the legacy of constructivism and modernist workers' theater. Here, the half globe seemingly orbits Oscar Niemeyer's spherical restaurant that hovers above the site. Together, they become a stage, projection surface, and resonance chamber: "machines for acting." A program of concerts, performances, and workshops explores the relationship between sound, music, movement, and architectural production. The installation and program are conceived by the Ball Theater design team –studio Muoto, Atelier Georgi Stanishev– and curator and architect Lennart Wolff and produced by Anica Kehr / Techne Sphere in collaboration with Institut français.
A collaborative workshop between HGB, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (Klasse für Performative Künste & Friends), and Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture - organized and taught by Gilles Delalex, Isabel Lewis, Frank Minnaert, Georgi Stanishev, and Lennart Wolff - maps out (in)visible architecture through movement, bodily actions, and built interventions. On the opening day of Ball Theater, on May 10th, the workshop culminates in a series of performances.
Ball Theater at the 18th International Venice Architecture Biennale was a project by studio Muoto –Gilles Delalex and Yves Moreau- and Georgi Stanishev (lead curators), Jos Auzende (associate curator), Clémence La Sagna and Georgi Stanishev (scenography), Cedric Pilooski, Alain Français, Thomas Fourny (sound installation) and Anna Tardivel (programming).
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