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actual performance work
Fountains
since 2024
This durational happening is created again and again at each station it travels to. Its evolving theme is the fluidity of bodies, their movements, their leaking, their pouring. Fountains is part performance, part concert, part botanical garden and part masked dance. The audience is invited to make their own masks, wear them to join the dances and blend in with the other performers.
Familienangelegenheiten
since 2023
Based on the idea that the family is the smallest political cell in which decisions about how to live together, how to make decisions together and how to respond to an ever-changing world can be negotiated on a daily basis, deufert&plischke together with artist friends, start a quest to collect stories from as many families as possible, to dance together and to share ideas and memories about what a family is.
Stoffwechsel
since 2023
In this participatory performance and happening, clothes take the lead. Finnish curator and performer Johanna Tuukkanen moves through a landscape of clothes, sounds and words, created in collaboration with deufert&plischke, and invites the audience to join her in transforming the landscape, pointing out the completely underestimated role of clothing in one's own life.
A Worn World
since 2020
«A Worn World» travels the world as an open fashion studio, social space and intergenerational community ballroom project where designers and performers work with audiences, collecting stories and relationships people have with clothes and, through clothes, with their identities and the world.
Just in Time
since 2016
«Just in Time» is a community-based project that began with the aim of gathering as many voices as possible from around the world to tell the story of people's relationship with dance. Letters to Dance are written and performed in workshops and ballrooms, sharing favourite moves or telling stories about people's journey in dance. Since 2016, more than 2000 letters have been collected in more than 20 cities... and there is no end in sight.
Inventing (overlooked) Artists
since 2004
In a collective effort of fabulation, a group of artists, art lovers or even an entire village invents an artist who would be overlooked locally because of their gender, origin or ability. This cross-disciplinary project takes on the impossible task of trying to fill the gaps created by power relations in the art world.
Deufert&plischke's works are ongoing performance and media projects that always arise from collective practice – whether within the family, with fellow artists or entire communities. In fact, deufert&plischke have even created an artwork together with an entire village. While travelling the world, they develop new works in collaboration with local people, continuously incorporating collected materials from different places and communities into the creative process.
images: Emergence Room / MuMoK / Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien / 2010
These collections, which are unsystematic, emotional and strongly influenced by personal stories, circulate between all participants. The resulting works are shown in public spaces, theatres and, increasingly, in galleries and museums, including the mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, the Ifa-Galerie Berlin, the Rudolf-Schöttle-Galerie Munich, the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Z33 Hasselt and the Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal.
images: Emergence Room / Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart 2013
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