Erde & Plastik: Begegungen

Performance | Installation | Research
2023 – 2025

Erde & Plastik: Begegungen is a site-specific, installative, and performative format set within a 360° immersive and walkable environment. This flexible framework can be adapted to a wide range of venues—from theater stages and traditional white cube galleries to unconventional art spaces

The project brings together bodies, materials, and audiences in an open, experimental setting. Using soil (partly artificial), plastic sheeting, and flowerpots as sculptural and performative elements, it creates a fluid space between exhibition and performance. A significant part of the movement vocabulary emerges from the interaction between performers and materials—both in active manipulation and in being acted upon.

The installation incorporates video works, textual fragments, and performative interventions—either solo or in collaboration with one musician and one to two dancers/performers. The performance is modular and can take place in various constellations; its physical traces may remain on site as an installation. These remnants can be accompanied by video excerpts and insights into the creation process.

Through object manipulation, material-based interaction, and choreography, the project reflects on both the metaphorical and literal groundlessness of our time, as well as the growing sense of detachment in contemporary life. 

Credits

Concept, Creation & Performance: Verena Schneider
Invited performers/dancers in the research: Iris Gravemaker, Bianca Braunesberger, Alina Bertha 
Artistic Consultation, Outside Eye:  Sebastian Bechinger, Arne Mannott, Martina Stapf
Text & Scenography: Verena Schneider
Costume, Artistic Collaboration: Sarah Sternat
Collaboration sound: Lukas Bamesreiter, Jakub Schauer
Production: Verena Schneider, Verein Freifall

Supported by: Bundesministerium Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst
Residency support: Circus Researched, ON THE EDGE (AT), Zirkushalle Dornbirn (AT), Die Bäckerei Innsbruck (AT), WUK TTP, Zirkusquartier Zürich (CH), Labo  OFF Act Out Residency Support IG Freie Theater, SOHO STUDIOS (AT)

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