A performance and temporary sculpture dedicated to the human scale.

The act of measuring with the body becomes a performance, breaking spatial patterns and reconstructing its elements. In a rigid grid of twenty-five wooden blocks two performers measure the in between spaces with their bodies. The measurements slowly transform into abstract movements. The bodies no longer fit into the regular pattern and start to rearrange the blocks to give new freedom to their movement. Dancing becomes constructing, to then turn into measuring again. As moving and constructing become inseparable, the bodies draw temporary maps in space.

Collaborators
Elias Kurth (Scenography/Choreography/Performance)
Irène Wernli (Performance/Choreography)

Length
Twenty minutes

Supported by
ProHelvetia, Avant Art Festival

Special Thanks to
Mika Vainio (Music)

Year
2013

News

‣ February 24

Physical Ideas For Abroad
Performance as part of 2 4 0 2 2 4
21H30, Dampfzentrale Bern

‣ March 23

Landscape of Hyper
Premiere
Saturday March 23, 20H, Alte Reithalle, Bühne Aarau
Tuesday March 26, 20H
Wedensday March 27, 20H

About

Elias Kurth (b. 1984 in Aarau, Switzerland) is an artist, choreographer, performer and architect based in Marseille and Aarau. Working across these disciplines, Elias Kurth explores the tensions between fictional and factual spaces, between individual fantasies and societal realities.
The projects vary in scale, duration and media, and always draw from the human body as a source of knowledge. Using movement as a thinking tool, Kurth develops intersections between performance, architecture and visual arts. His curiosity for the yet unknown and a strong sense for spaces and emotions create situational poignant experiences. The work, ranging from sensitive gestures to brute physical acts, reveals his playful reading of internal and external realities and their conflicts.

Elias Kurth graduated from London Contemporary Dance School ‘The Place’ (2009) and worked with several choreographers such as Lea Anderson, Requardt&Rosenberg or Compagnie Shifts. He graduated as an architect from the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin (2018) where he studied amongst others with Jean-Philippe Vassal, Enrique Sobejano, and Alexandra Ranner. He has worked as an architect for Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation and Compagnie KHZ. His own work has been shown in the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany and Switzerland.

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