In “Die Rendezvouz mit (…)”, everyday flows of movement at transit locations in Munich’s city center are examined, with a focus on the subway tracks of lines U3/U6 at Marienplatz. The performance is conceived as a slow loop and repeats continuously: performers move through escalators, corridors, and emergency exits in choreografic sequences.
The work is interested in a shift in temporality and attention, a slowing down and a reframing. An attempt to redirect the focus toward gentle moments of possible encounter, subtle crossings of stranger’s paths, and something shared that often remains unnoticed.
Carla Vollmers, born in 1997 in Diez, Germany, lives and works in Munich.
Within Public Art München Focus Year and its generous, overall focus on how we communicate and interact with our surroundings, rediscovering the public space as a place of multiple possibilities, the framework of the Invisible City proposes a further deepening of these core concerns. Five young artists – Noemi Calzavara & Marlotte Nugteren, Geumok Oh, Lee Kern, Mariateresa Molino, Carla Vollmers, all part of or having graduated from the Performance class at the Academy of Fine Arts, show individual performative works in the context curated by Alexandra Pirici (artist and professor for Performance at AdBK Munich). Their works reveal or refocus attention on less visible aspects and dynamics: of the public space and its collective construction, of the social fabric of the city, or even of the city’s natural environment and its psychogeography. Spread across various locations – Marienplatz, transit nodes, the Isar river, children’s playgrounds or monument sites, the performative actions propose interruptions, reconstructions, subtle changes or attunements in relation to places and bodies both material and imagined, both living and object-like, inviting us to consider them anew.
Performances
Saturday, 16 May, 1 – 5 pm
Location: Marienplatz subway station – escalators to the subway concourse and mirrored walkway parallel to the U3/U6 lines toward Sendlinger Tor
Sunday, 28 June, 2 – 6 pm
Location: Marienplatz subway station – escalators to the subway concourse and mirrored walkway parallel to the U3/U6 lines toward Sendlinger Tor
