Dark Material 

2013

Dark Material is a concert of three genres where bodies, sound and drawing meet in the live production of lines in time and space. Internationales Sommerfestival brought together visual artist Monika Grzymala, American choreographer Jeremy Wade and Jamie Stewart of XIU XIU who each contributed a drawing where the overlay of principles that are deducted from physical and emotional impulses as well as structural qualities of the material play out in space. Tape, movement and sound draw spatial diagrams of the unconscious and follow forces and tensions between bodies, human dependencies and devotions. They follow and expand lines, exhaust structures and patterns, trace folds, figures and loops.

Rather than aiming at the synthesis of one readable image, numerous drawings (movement sounds object) are propelled into space, get connected and cut, highlighted, interrupted and trashed. The result is a “gothic ballet” oscillating between formal abstract investigation, and grotesque emotional expression. It follows twisted and jagged lines until they break, jumps between genres and creates a nearly spiritual experience with its intense meditation of form.