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a work by Elisa Jule Braun and Moritz Stumm

video + installation

18:39 min

2021




The heads of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk fuse into one creating a singular entity named “Three headed Hell CEO”. HEIDEGGER’S VALLEY OR TECHNE & THE 3 FOOLS unfolds with such strange representations, as the CEO is joined by Techne, a kind of assistant embodying technology itself. Techne subsequently argues that CEOs next expansion of Silicon Valley units shall delve into the South of Germany. And with this Techne goes on a scouting journey encountering the Swabians, an engineering folk with a strange adversity towards the technological revolution this world is undergoing and yet with such a proud tradition of innovative thinkers, combined with absurd festivities like South Germany’s oh so beloved carnival. Techne encounters three fools of carnival ironically dancing to the US-rapper Future’s song “Mask off” while dressed head to toe in bizarre costumes. 

Humans thus far have mostly resorted to hierarchal orders of society. An order that is countered by the festivities of carnival, that, as the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin argues, is a “temporary liberation from the prevailing truth and from the established order.” A notion that calls Techne’s servitude into question and is mirrored within the strange conversation she has with the fools, who speak in a heavy Swabian dialect. Techne barely understands. Consequentially, Techne seeks a deeper understanding of language and finds the philosopher bot Hightekker, in the form of the glitching bust of Martin Heidegger himself, speaking in fragments of sentences and philosophical ideas. An overwhelming conversation unravels exposing all the layers that lie beneath Techne’s quest.

As such figures disappear and reappear, they proliferate an entanglement that poses a streak of questions relating towards notions of humanity, subjectivity and being. Is the carnivalesque an inherently human understanding of being? Do Heidegger’s ideas of technological innovation withstand the test of time? To which extent is language a lens through which we can understand the human and inhuman relations between tradition, technology and the future. All this while rapper Future’s chorus rings through the work: “Mask on, fuck it, mask off”. Who shall take off their mask in order to answer to Techne’s search for truth? The fools? The algorithm based Hightekker? Is it her own mask of friendly faces that must be taken off, bursting the bubble revealing the true nature of technology? Or perhaps is it the CEO puppet of capital’s mask? The video game aesthetics of his introduction may offer a subtle hint towards what may lie behind his appearance, as his passion is described as “profit” and his drug as „3x testosterone“.

by Heiko-Thandeka Ncube








AUTOPLAY

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A dance mashup, a bastard pop collage stolen from 1000 different sources: In AUTOPLAY, the copy & paste button becomes the leitmotif. Every movement, every sound, every image is an objet trouvé taken from the World Wide Web. From contemporary choreography to the Harlem Shake, from the video game Fortnite to shampoo commercials, from the selfie style on Instagram to the globally marketed pose of Michelangelo’s David – everything is recombined, reorganized and intermixed.

 

World premiere: 14. November 2019, schwere reiter Munich

Choreography: Moritz Ostruschnjak together with Daniela Bendini and the dancers

Dance: Annamaria Ajmone, Daniel Conant, Cristian Cucco, Antoine Roux-Briffaud

Video: Moritz Stumm

Music mixing & editing: Jonas Friedlich

Dramatic adviser: Armin Kerber

Light design: Andreas Harder

Costume: Daniela Bendini, Renate Ostruschnjak

Audio engineering: Paolo Mariangeli

Production management: Hannah Melder

PR: Simone Lutz

Credits

A production by Moritz Ostruschnjak. Supported by the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich

and the BLZT, Bavarian State Association for Contemporary Dance with funding from the Bavarian State Ministry

for Science and Arts. Realised by a residency of the Theater Freiburg. The artist is supported by Grand Luxe

network 2019/20 an is a member of Tanztendenz München e. V.

RANGDA

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RANGDA

 

 

costume in cooperation with Svenja Gassen

HECTORS CALL

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HECTORS CALL

 

2019

video, 4:21 min.

IBOGAIN

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IBOGAIN

 

2018

audiovisual live-performance

10 inch Dubplate, Edition of 30 + 5AP ‘s

 

Henk Heuer’s and Moritz Stumm’s -work Ibogain, modifies states of consciousness through audio visual stimulants. By incorporating acoustic illusions such as binaural beats, the Shepard-Risset-Glissando, and time-shifting polyrhythms, a psychoacoustic experiment  emerges that is expanded by hypnotic, geometrical projections in the three-dimensional space.
Extracted from an African tropical plant, the hallucinogen Ibogan is administered in shamanic rituals and leads to a waking dream-consciousness. Sound and rhythm have always been used for healing and the enhancement of perception. Simultaneously, there is a belief in the enhancement of the human being through technology and science which has taken on religious traits. With the help of neuronal stimulation and so-called brain-computer interfaces, a new-, more efficient and intelligent human being is supposed to be created. The cooperation of Heuer and Stumm oscillates between these poles of archaic spirituality and the current tendencies of a supposed rational optimization of human beings. The cultural and psychic aspects of sound and music are recurrent motifs in Moritz Stumms artistic work.

WHO STOLE MY FACE

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WHO STOLE MY FACE

 

2018

two-channel, video-loop, 46 min.

BULLPIT

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BULLPIT

 

2017

video-loop  | 11:00 min

 

In Bullpit you can see a pogoing group of policemen in riot police uniform. It is unclear in which context the scene takes place. It oscillates between a brutal clash and the silly scramble of little boys. Slapsticism and aggressiveness go hand in hand. The slow motion makes the movements seem dance-like, even tender. Violence is replaced by play, the street battle is replaced by a loving brawl. The police as guardians of security act in an irrational act of excess. The whole thing is a border crossing that contradicts the determination of the police officers as guardians of law and order. The video suggests a utopia in which state power has become obsolete and is only directed against itself. Demonstrators fighting policemen are familiar images. A strange image are policemen who fight against policemen, the opponent is himself. In BULLPIT the horizon forms the borderline between violence and lust.

 

 

 

PROPAGANDA/ MANTIS

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PROPAGANDA

 

ongoing

 

are audiovisual live-performances an collaboration with Nik Nowak. They deal with topics of sonic warfare, propaganda and the psychology of sound.

 

THE MOSH

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THE MOSH

 

version 1 2010

video-loop | 3:33 min.

version 2 2016

video-loop | 2:42 min.

 

„The Mosh documents a form of ritualized aggression. The camera takes the position of the singer and looks into the crowd. The individual dissolves into a sea of people.

 

 

 

 

 

UNSTERN

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UNSTERN

In kaleidoscopic scenes, “Unstern” illuminates the very moment before catastrophe strikes; it is a blend of violence, nationalist propaganda, incipient battle cries, machismo and insecurity. Expressive images form narrative sequences of motion and performative scenes. A sequence of conditions, sensations and motives results in an image of a society on the edge of an abyss and the onset of a new era.

 

World Premiere: 13th of September 2018 @ schwere reiter Munich

 

Idea, concept: Moritz Ostruschnjak
Choreography: Moritz Ostruschnjak together with Daniela Bendini and the dancers
Dance: Eli Cohen, Antoine Roux-Briffaud, Gaetano Badalamenti, Lazare Huet
Video: Moritz Stumm  
Music mixing, editing, compiling: Jonas Friedlich
Lightdesign: Tanja Rühl
Costume: Renate Ostruschnjak
Sound engeneering: Paolo Mariangeli
Production: Hannah Melder
PR: Simone Lutz PR