Photographs: TANK © Katja Ilner, Konstanze Grotkopp
TANK
In TANK, created in collaboration with the artist Boris Kopeinig, the Austrian choreographer Doris Uhlich explores how new technologies change our thinking about the body. The centre of the piece is a glass tank built by the Berlin collective Proper Space. In this container, which looks like an oversized test tube, the body is shown as an experimentation area and an object of reconstruction.
The tank's motif has been a significant theme in science fiction since the second half of the 20th century. From ""Test Tube Girls"" to ""Alien: Resurrection"", it has regularly appeared as a modified body's scenographic arrangement. The tank stands for the isolation of unknown and dangerous life forms. In Doris Uhlich'sUhlich's performance, it advances to a place of study and testing of physical transformations.
The play has a cinematic, image-like character. The physical material develops from associations with cinema, robots, biotechnology and the medical field. TANK is a performance about technological promises of happiness, the future of the body, its exposure, and its finality. With its transparent walls, the tank resembles a magnifying glass.
GENERAL NOTEThe tank's motif has been a significant theme in science fiction since the second half of the 20th century. From ""Test Tube Girls"" to ""Alien: Resurrection"", it has regularly appeared as a modified body's scenographic arrangement. The tank stands for the isolation of unknown and dangerous life forms. In Doris Uhlich'sUhlich's performance, it advances to a place of study and testing of physical transformations.
The play has a cinematic, image-like character. The physical material develops from associations with cinema, robots, biotechnology and the medical field. TANK is a performance about technological promises of happiness, the future of the body, its exposure, and its finality. With its transparent walls, the tank resembles a magnifying glass.
TANK is produced for stage but can also be presented at site specific locations such as museums, galleries or as urban interventions like outdoor spaces.
CREDITS
Concept
Doris Uhlich, Boris Kopeinig
Choreography, Performance
Doris Uhlich
Dramaturgical collaboration
Adam Czirak
Yoshie Maruoka
Sound
Boris Kopeinig
Text
Boris Kopeinig
Doris Uhlich
Tank
Proper Space (Angela Ribera, Konstanze Grotkopp, Juliette Collas)
Body objects
Devi Saha
Light
Sergio Pessanha
Technical support
Gerald Pappenberger
Production
Marijeta Karlovic-Graf
Margot Wehinger
Sebastian Lorenz
Co-production
tanzhaus nrw
ImPulsTanz and insert (Theaterverein)
Distribution
Something Great
Thanks to
Karin Harrasser and Marian Kaiser
DJ Set Track List:
Time Machines, "Psilocybin"
Electric Indigo, "Ntandathu"
Orphx, "Sever The Signal"
Peter Van Hoesen, "Hollow Eye"
insert (Theaterverein) is funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna.