SPIRIT PLASTIC

Premiere

In the summer of 1927, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – dadaist poet, nude model, and proto-punk – writes a letter to patron Peggy Guggenheim. With apocalyptic urgency, she outlines her latest project: a studio for experimental modelling in Paris, which she hopes will mark her artistic comeback and provide an escape route out of her existential misery. Peggy Guggenheim expresses interest, but does not pay. Shortly afterwards, the artist takes her own life. Now, almost a century later, ,Bruch‘- is taking up this forgotten episode in the history of performance art and re-stages it as a space of resonance for contemporary dilemmas of artistic labour. Together with dancer Frances Chiaverini, composer Stanislav Iordanov, author Théo Casciani and others, they explore the act of calling oneself an “artist” in an economically, politically and spiritually precarious present. The second showing will be accompanied by SPLENDOUR, a solo performance featuring dancer and choreographer Martina De Dominicis.