On Enclosed Spaces And The Great Outdoors

TRANSLECTURES ON ENCLOSED SPACES & THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Translecture performances by Nikolaus Gansterer in relation to presentations of André Lepecki, Jeroen Peeters, David Weber-Krebs, Maximilian Haas, Andre Eiermann, René ten Bos, Augusto Corrieri, Michael Marder, Stefanie Wenner, Christel Stalpaert, Guy Gypens, Antoine Pickels and others.

Anthropocentrism has become increasingly untenable in the light of scientific experiment and discovery. Now that we know how similar, and how closely related, we are to all the living things on the planet, we cannot continue to consider ourselves as unique. And we cannot isolate our own interests, and our own economies, from processes taking place on a cosmic scale in a universe whose boundaries we are unable to grasp.          (Steven Shaviro, 2014.)

Usually people who step into a theatre are of two kinds: the spectators and the actors. The spectators watch the actors.  Both usually are humans.  This happens usually in the enclosed space of theatre.  In its symbolics, its economy and its practice, theatre is the place where the human stands central with his body and his words.  But what kind of spectatorship applies when challenged by an encounter with a thing, a creature, a flow, fiction, darkness?  Is it at all possible to abandon anthropocentrism in this game?
During this day we are going to focus on the non-human in theatre and outside of it, on stages, on screens and in the great outdoors. The spectators will  be addressed and moved in different ways by performances in and outside the theatre, by lectures and by a cosmic event.

Translecture by Nikolaus Gansterer on André Lepeckis Lecture „In the dark“, 2015, at Brakke Grond Art Centre, Amsterdam

Watch the introduction and some of the other full length translecture perfromances here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXRhT4kegBpE9F7ESGnxUfP0AYudKTg9K
and
the full documentation of the On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors (EDITION 1-5) project.

On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors was curated and presented by theatre-maker David Weber-Krebs in collaboration with dramturge Jeroen Peeters.

Nikolaus Gansterer participated and performed in the following three editions:

1. More than Human Participation, at De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, March 18-22, 2015
With contributions by Andrea Bozic, Andre Eiermann, Nikolaus Gansterer, Maximilian Haas, Mette Ingvartsen, André Lepecki, Jeroen Peeters and David Weber-Krebs.

2. Limits of the Human Sensorium, at Kaaitheater, Brussels, February 10, 2018
With contributions by René ten Bos, Augusto Corrieri, Axel Dörner, Mette Edvardsen, Bryana Fritz, Nikolaus Gansterer, Anne Juren, Michael Marder and Stefanie Wenner.

5. Exercising Fragility in Theatres and Beyond, at Zwarte Zaal, Bijloke, Ghent, November 23, 2024
With contributions by Augusto Corrieri, Katja Dreyer, Nikolaus Gansterer, Yannick Guédon, Guy Gypens, Antoine Pickels, Julie Sermon, Christel Stalpaert and May Abnet, Julien Bruneau, Alondra Castellanos Arreola, Zoë Demoustier and Irena Radmanovic  as the Guardians of Sleep.

Visit here the full documentation of the On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors project.