The serial project Portable Silent Pieces was dedicated to the relationship between architecture and the human body. In the first performance work entitled WOHNUNG MIT ZUKUNFT, the focus lied on exploring issues around community, co-habitation, and habits. By developing a multifunctional object made of recyclable materials, the artists staged a narrative around two characters who moved in together due to a catastrophe. Inspired by the comic approach of silent films (especially Buster Keaton), this narrative tackled upon a shared experience of helplessness, perplexity and a perpetual attempt of creating a new ground.

In the second performance entitled DENK’MAL DIE ZUKUNFT, the emphasis lied on how the postmodern, glassy, vertical architecture of big cities affect human behavior. By creating another multifunctional object, the artists developed a performance score inspired by the interventionist approach of the architect and musician Christopher Dell. In this case, notions such as POSITION, SUPPORT, GAP, ROUTINE, and APPROPRIATION served as guidelines to play in an associative way with what the object and its different forms (e.g., building, tower, bank) provoked in the performing body.

Event Dates Wohnen mit Zukunft: 19.08 & 20.08.2014, Ding Dong Dom, Holzmarkt, Berlin, GE

Credits: Concept and Performance: Juliana Piquero, Michi Muchina & Nathalie Fari / Costume and Object: Michi Muchina / Light and Video: Catalina Fernandez / Dramaturgical assistance: Tamara Saphir, Yvo Wagener / Photos: a.r.laub

Event Dates DENK’MAL DIE ZUKUNFT: 04.05.2015, Projektraum MEIN BLAU, Month of Performance Art Berlin, Ge.

Credits: Concept and Performance: Michaela Muchina, Nathalie Fari & Yvo Wagener / Musik: Felix Astor / Photos:  a.r.laub