Sun. 04.06.2023 | 16:00
with: Marita Bullmann, Simon Camatta
curated by: Elisabeth Sonneck
Performance, Concert
super bien!
Schwedter 232, 10435 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
super bien! Berlin invites the performer Marita Bullmann and the drummer Simon Camatta (both from Essen/Ruhrgebiet) to work with the greenhouse and the surrounding courtyard. In their conceptual improvisations, both artists refer primarily to peripheral places of public space, using lightweight equipment that emphasizes aspects of mobility and changeability.
The ambition for each performance by Marita Bullmann is to explore and develop unknown forms of presentation and to present them in the context of collaboration. For super bien! Berlin a performance is developed in which she makes phenomena of strangeness and peculiarity of material and space visible and ultimately point to the beauty of the simple. She speaks with her body, with those materials and their movements, creating a platform of communication in space and time, and in this way she can bring to light aesthetic and political designs of the possible.
On a small drum set, Simon Camatta freely improvises back and forth between genres.
Noisy pads, angular grooves and abstract melodies. The special sounds of his partly modified instruments (deformed cymbals, everyday objects as percussion tools, etc.) as well as the enormous range of variation of his playing.
Since 2006 super bien! Berlin - Greenhouse for Contemporary Art has been showing site-specific, temporary installations that are visible 24/7 in public space (in the courtyard of the Milchhof e.V. studio community).
With the fully transparent structure of the greenhouse, a permanent interaction and confrontation with fluctuating influences of the environment is thematized. The projects specially conceived for superbien! Berlin deal with the diverse contexts of the site: the visual permeability of the space, its location in public space, the social history of the site (a former schoolyard in the GDR), the coexistence of nature and culture, the instability of light, weather and temperature, and other aspects that offer complementary possibilities to the White Cube concept.
In summer, between the installative exhibitions, events are held that realize site-specific investigations in the medium of performance/music/lecture. A long-term interest of super bien! Berlin also lies in international networking: in 2023, a vice-versa project space exchange has been initiated that takes place in Berlin, Milan, and Warsaw.
The dynamic dissolution of the boundaries of material space at super bien! aims at the integration of phenomena instead of control and a sensitive, non-hierarchical perception of natural as well as artistic processes in public social space: access to art is not only physically barrier-free for visitors, but in every respect.
Seating: Benches
Age Groups: Suitable for all ages
Languages: No language skill required
Wheelchair users | Buggies: accessible at ground level
Hearing-impaired / deaf people: can watch Marita Bullmann's performance in focus (from approx. 5.15 pm), and the solo drumming (from 4 pm) is also visually impressive
Neurodiversity: We strive for attention and care and the event directly addresses the senses.
Blind people: can listen to Simon Camatta on solo drums ( 4pm - approx. 5pm)