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'In or Out with Parakeets?' Images from a performance intervention in Richmond/London. June 1st 2009
'In or Out with Parakeets?' images from a performance intervention @ Bereznitzky Gallery Berlin,
invited by Museum Man, May 1st 2009
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Dungbeetle and Sisyphus II from Birgit Deubner on Vimeo .
..below: the start of the performance of Dungbeetle and Sisyphus, october 2008
Dungbeetle and Sisyphus 1 from Birgit Deubner on Vimeo .
..half way through the performance..
Dungbeetle and Sisyphus 9 from Birgit Deubner on Vimeo .
"Dungbeetle and Sisyphus" - rough edit, of the end of a 3 hour 'performance' through Liverpool City. (September 2008. For exhibition in "The Baltic Frame" curated by Tony Smith, during the Independent Biennial Liverpool. Camera work: thanks to to Leon Seth !)
this clip is of "Dungbeetle and Sisyphus", about 2/3rd into the performance.
Location: Crosshall Street / Victoria Street, Liverpool, UK.
Camera: Leon Seth.
...The work below is documentation of a part of a project I did during the Liverpool Independent Biennial 2006. Strapped to my back on a walk through the city are a pair of wings made from lead.. this was the 2nd of 2 performances
PHOTOGRAPHY BY PETER HAGGERTY
..about the fall of Icarus..
............................................. ABOUT THE ARTIST BY CRESSIDA KOCIENSKI :.....................................
"Birgit Deubner creates rich multidisciplinary installations and performances that explore notions of mythology and folklore, and the concepts of drawing and choreographed movement as parallel languages. She has spent many years in the exploration of an expanded notion of drawing which includes the mapping of dance through choreographic notation, and the visualisation of sound through the live projection of soundwaves. She has collaborated with members of the Liverpool Philharmonic orchestra and professional dancers, and has worked on projects in Morocco, India and Cambodia.
Birgit's film works eschew the convenience of the digital format for the sensuous flicker of cinefilm, often using silhouettes projected onto sculptural objects or environments – cities, forests and staircases in whose shadowy world exist these dreamlike signifiers of human fears or desires. She works consciously with sculptural materials which are haptic: the permeating smell of beeswax, the chill of ice, and the sombre weight of lead are absorbed into her rich language of signification, which has much in common with the totemic use of icon(ic)-materials of Anselm Kiefer and Joseph Beuys.
Although she is aware of her relationship to this bicephalus paterfamilias of German Art, her exploration of Devotional Choreography has perhaps wealthier resonances with Goethe's Weltliteratur. Like Goethe she seeks to promote empathy and mutual understanding through documenting the ways in which people from different faiths use repeated movement in their relationship to the Divine. She seeks the personal in the universal, but hers is not a biographical gaze – their distillation from the greater cultural context allows each faith to resonate with the visual poetry of those around it.
We are asked gently to consider the evolution and transmission of these gestures of devoted submission, which move through generations and across continents. Faiths wander and diverge with populations, but are rooted to each other and their own history in these 'dances'.
Their inscriptions are impermanent, but become timeless through their constant reinscription."
Journey with Restraints from Birgit Deubner on Vimeo .
performance in Liverpool 2006
a part of the Independents Biennial exhibition strand
This is a short excerpt from the 20 minute film which was made for exhibition at several galleries.
(i.e. the Grizedale Open Saloon at A-Foundation Greenland Street)
materials: lead wings & the artist
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Below is an installation that I made in India in march 2007.
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slideshow of images related to the "Dungbeetle and Sisyphus" public performance project