Spacelab is a research and co-working space in Essen. It is open to freelance groups, choreographers, dancers and performance artists from Essen and the surrounding area. The space is also the office and headquarters of Polymer DMT / Fang Yun Lo.
Address: Kreuzeskirchstr. 25, 45127 Essen, Germany
Contact / Info: Kati Masami Menze, Marlene Helling, spacelab@polymerdmt.com
In addition to work facilities, Spacelab offers a regular programme of workshops and lectures for members of IG Tanz Essen and interested artists from the region - the Spacelab encounters (2021), The flow work (2022) and space|lab is running (2022/23). We also organise festivals and other events and help coordinate the activities of IG Tanz Essen.
"space|lab is running 23 - one theme, two perspectives".
In this series of talks in space|lab and in our immediate neighbourhood, we want to talk to artists and specialists from teaching, research and science about their expertise and socially relevant topics. Which parallels exist in art and science, how and what can we learn from each other?
FRI, 10 FEBRUARY 2023, 19:00 [Start in Kunstraum jETZT, Weberstraße 8, Essen]
Archives - A task for eternity? - with Foteini Papadopoulou, freelance choreographer & Dr. Claudia Kauertz, head of Haus der Essener Geschichte/ Stadtarchiv
WED, 05 APRIL 2023, 19:00
AI - About Cyborgs, Chatbots and Chthuluzän - with Till Bödeker, visual artist & Anne Küper, Researcher in the DFG post-graduate programme “The Documentary. Excess and Withdrawal”, Ruhr-University Bochum
WED, 03 MAY, 2023, 19:00
Sounds of Our City - Noise or Signal? With Anna-Luella Zahner, dramaturge and translator & Frank Niehusmann, composer
Fri, 02 JUNE, 2023, 19:00
Assembly - How do we want to live together?
- We invite you to a dinner where different perspectives on a future life in the city will have space. How do we want to live? How do we imagine the city and urban society in the future?
- Admission free, pre-registration requested: spacelab@polymerdmt.com
space | lab is running 2022
The summer festival of IG Tanz Essen
DAY 1: JULY 29, 2022 - to start.
- 11:00 - 16:00, space | lab [not public] – Internal Sharing of the IG Tanz artists and the space | lab residents with representatives of the art and culture scene NRW. With: Alberto Curci, Marlene Helling, Marie-Lena Kaiser, Josephine Kalies, Gustavo Leite, Fang Yun Lo, Kati Masami Menze, Foteini Papadopoulou, Robert Schulz, Giovanni Zazzera Z Art Dance Company mit Enora Gemin
- 18:00, Gitterraum – Opening space | lab is running, drinks and food
- 19:00 - 21:00, Gitterraum – DJ Set
DAY 2: JULY 30, 2022 - we are running.
A tour through Essen's City Nord, transformed through dance, performance, music, film and exhibitions by dance and performance artists from IG Tanz.
- 14:00 START (in the order of the tour)
- space | lab: “Octupus.” by Pin-Chen Hsu, “Salz ||: im Blut” by Camila Scholtbach, “STAND BY” by Lara Pilloni/ music by Alvaro Severino (video works)
- Gitterraum: “now we're talking” by Josephine Kalies in collaboration with Kati Masami Menze, Paloma García de Juan, Elisa Spina and Tristan Berger (performative tryout / photo work)
- Weberplatz: “Frauen.Frieden.Flügel” by Anca Huma (dance performance)
- Konsumforum 2nd floor: “Untouch” by Alexandra Krutikova and Jan Chris Pollert (dance performance)
- Gitterraum: experimental concert by Marco Girardin
- Kopstadtplatz: “Zwei alte Damen” by Claudia Mauerer and Mariela Rossi (street performance)
- Kunstraum jETZT: “MOVEMENT JOURNALS/MOVING JOURNALS” by Foteini Papadopoulou and Christian Clarke (photo work)
- former Restaurant Mayflower: “Asia Restaurant” by Polymer DMT/Fang Yun Lo (video installation)
- 16:45 Picnic at the Weberplatz
DAY 3: JULY 31, 2022 - to finish.
Film screenings and discussions about choreographers' and dancers' engagement with film
- 11:00 - 14:00, space | lab
- Talk about the video installation "Asia Restaurant" with the artists of Polymer DMT/Fang Yun Lo
- Film screening "Die Erde ist gewaltig schön, doch sicher ist sie nicht" by SKORONEL RELOADED
- Film screening "Vale of shadow" by Annalisa Palmieri and Stsiapan Hurski
Spacelab partner:
space | lab Events
2023 6月 2日
2023 5月 3日
Sounds of Our City - Noise or Signal? With Anna-Luella Zahner & Frank Niehusmannspace | lab is running 23聚合舞埃森創作分享空間埃森, DE2023 4月 5日
AI - About Cyborgs, Chatbots and Chthuluzän. With Anne Küper & Till Bödekerspace | lab is running 23聚合舞埃森創作分享空間埃森, DE2023 2月 10日
Archives - A task for eternity? With Foteini Papadopoulou & Claudia Kauertzspace | lab is running 23聚合舞埃森創作分享空間埃森, DE2022 11月 4日
The flow work - dance & writing - workshop with Judith Ayuso聚合舞埃森創作分享空間埃森, DE2022 9月 16日
The flow work - There is always a way: a workshop on freelancing as an artist - with Robert Schulz聚合舞埃森創作分享空間埃森, DE2022 8月 31日 - 2022 9月 3日
2022 7月 29日 - 2022 7月 31日
space | lab is running - summer festival聚合舞埃森創作分享空間埃森, DE2022 7月 4日 - 2022 7月 10日
Residency - Foteini Papadopoulou2022 6月 20日 - 2022 7月 3日
Residency - Bianca Sere Pulungan2022 6月 10日
The flow work - Improvisation with principles of Feldenkrais method - with Mu-Yi Kuo聚合舞埃森創作分享空間埃森, DE2022 5月 23日 - 2022 6月 5日
Residency - Josephine Kalies2022 5月 9日 - 2022 5月 21日
Residency - Marco Girardin2022 4月 18日 - 2022 5月 1日
Residency - Kati Masami Menze2022 4月 2日
The flow work - Documentary theatre research workshop - with Fang Yun Lo聚合舞埃森創作分享空間埃森, DE2022 3月 2日 - 2022 3月 6日
Residency - Marlene Helling2022 2月 7日 - 2022 2月 17日
Residency - Marlene Helling2022 1月 24日 - 2022 2月 6日
Residency - 李曉婷2022 1月 17日 - 2022 1月 23日
Residency - Foteini Papadopoulou2021 10月 28日
Encounter #6 - Methods of Inclusion for Dance/Performance Art, with Elisa Kneisel線上2021 8月 20日 - 2021 8月 22日
the flow work - workshops with Marie-Lena Kaiser, Verena Hahn, Samandhyana Company, Magdalena Öttl and Foteini PapadopoulouMaschinenhaus Essen埃森, DE2021 7月 5日 - 2021 7月 11日
Folkwang RUNDGANG 2021聚合舞埃森創作分享空間埃森, DE2021 7月 4日
Encounter #5 - Mobile audio recording techniques for choreographers, with Marius Kirch, Dipl. Audio Engineer線上2021 6月 25日
Encounter #4 - Turning reality into art - techniques of research and interviewing, with Khuê Phạm, ZEITmagazin線上2021 5月 17日
Encounter #3 - The Art Sector and Sustainability, with Iris Ping-Chi Hung, Taipei線上2021 4月 29日
Encounter #2 - Precarious Art, with Prof. Dr. Bojana Kunst, Frankfurt/M., Gießen線上2021 4月 9日
Meeting on cultural policy - with Muchtar Al-Ghusain, Margrit Lichtschlag聚合舞埃森創作分享空間埃森, DE2021 3月 22日
Encounter #1 - Building a regional artists' network, with Cindy Hammer, Magdalena Weniger / TanzNetzDresden e.V.線上2021 3月 12日
Opening ceremony聚合舞埃森創作分享空間埃森, DE
Spacelab is an initiative by Polymer DMT / Fang Yun Lo, in cooperation with IG Tanz Essen and Sabina Stücker Kulturproduktion, supported by BUREAU RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, which is funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative, and by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia - Spitzenförderung Tanz
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