SPACE/TIME BERLIN 2016 IRENE ACCARDO + LAURENT PELLISSIER / LEYLA RODRIGUEZ + CRISTIAN STRAUB/ APOLLO 18 / ISLE OF LOX PERFORMANCE/VIDEO /DATES APRIL 08 20:00 @ the Sophiensaele Sophienstraße 18 Berlin/ GERMANY
Leyla Rodriguez and Christian Straub, Isle of Lox: the Face (2011) video still.
Leyla Rodriguez and Christian Straub – Isle of Lox
Isle of Lox is a series of eight short episodes which follow the artists, their alter egos, and their many non-human companions as they journey through a mystical urban wasteland towards an unknown destination. Over the course of the series, the artists employ a variety of visual and formal techniques, which range from the colloquial to the baroque, from the absurd to the lyric.
Leyla Rodriguez and Christian Straub, Isle of Lox: the Face (2011) video still.
Leyla Rodriguez and Christian Straub – Isle of Lox
Isle of Lox is a series of eight short episodes which follow the artists, their alter egos, and their many non-human companions as they journey through a mystical urban wasteland towards an unknown destination. Over the course of the series, the artists employ a variety of visual and formal techniques, which range from the colloquial to the baroque, from the absurd to the lyric.
Romanian-born Cristian Straub studied philosophy and has had a short career as a musician, after which he decided to become a filmmaker. He enrolled in the Hamburg Art School (HfbK), where he studied in the class of Wim Wenders. His short films, art videos and fashion films were shown internationally at film festivals and exhibitions. Currently, Cristian is working on a new short film, to be followed by his first feature film in 2016.
Leyla Rodriguez enrolled at HAW University Hamburg. Her interventions in the public space through temporary textile installations, objects and videos have been exhibited in numerous galleries and shown at film festivals worldwide. She was born in Buenos Aires and currently lives and works in Hamburg/ Germany. Recent exhibitions include MuVIM Museu Valencià de la II-lustració i la Modernitat, Valencia Spain (2015), Peruvian & Nord American Cultural Institue of Cusco, Peru(2014), Takis Katsoulidis Engraving Museum, Messini Greece (2013), Kunstverein Rostock, Rostock Germany (2013), The State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg Russia (2012), The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena USA (2012), Tromso Kunstforening, Tromso Norway (2011) and the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. USA (2011). She was the recepient of The Kraft New Media Prize in 2011.
The Sophiensæle is one of the most important locations for German-speaking independent art-production. Artists from Berlin, as well as the national and international theatre-scene are invited to produce and present their works here. They are selected on the basis of their artistic concepts, contents, and working schemes.
The Sophiensæle is home to cultural discourse and a vast mix of artistic genres – from theatre, dance and music, to performance and visual art – which complement each other and enjoy a productive dialogue. Alongside many young artists such as Rose Beermann, Henrike Iglesias, Lwowski/Kronfoth Musiktheaterkollektiv, Markus&Markus, Lea Moro or Quast&Knoblich, searching for new theatrical languages and forms of expression, a number of established artists and companies have longstanding partnerships with the Sophiensæle. These include choreographers such as Clément Layes, Lea Martini, Sebastian Matthias, Martin Nachbar, Jochen Roller, Naoko Tanaka and Christoph Winkler and directors such as Thorsten Lensing, Johannes Müller + Philine Rinnert or Milo Rau/IIPM, and among others performance groups such as Burmester + Feigl, Lovefuckers, Monster Truck, Schmidli + Haug, Social Muscle Club and Turbo Pascal.
The Sophiensæle belongs to a network of internationally oriented, independent theatres. Other members include Kampnagel Hamburg, Mousonturm Frankfurt/Main, FFT Düsseldorf, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich and brut Wien. Among others, the Sophiensæle are producer of Tanztage Berlin and Freischwimmer festival. Beyond that, a number of renowned festivals of Berlin take place here, amng others MaerzMusik and Tanz im August. Here is a place devoted to artists as much as the audience, where the face-to-face encounter between these groups is the essential goal.