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Workshops
Seminars
Teaching
deufert&plischke teach seminars and workshops for professional performers and amateurs, for specific communities and even in completely different areas such as city councils. As part of their projects, they have also worked in asylum seeker shelters, schools and old people's homes. From 2007 to 2009, they were involved in university teaching, initially as collaborators in the development of the «Performance Studies» programme at the University of Hamburg, and from 2010 as professors in the development, consolidation and accreditation of the BA programme «Dance, Context, Choreography» at the HZT / UdK Berlin. deufert&plischke have been guest professors at many universities (Folkwang University of the Arts, Institute for Contemporary Dance, Scenic Research Bochum) and have been guest professors/teachers at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen, P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, the Berlin University of the Arts, among others.
deufert&plischke teach their own artistic working process, which is based on strict collaboration.
Their choreographic work focuses on how complex and interesting structures arise without imitation and without the leading role of a choreographer/director, but through the permanent reference to each other. Their choreographic self-understanding is that choreography can be a temporary society and not just reflect it. Based on this understanding, they explore topics such as physicality, clothing and memory.
Three examples of formats are: Las Hilanderas, Durcheinander and Spinnen
Las Hilanderas
ifa Galerie Berlin 2019
«Las Hilanderas» grew out of the «Emergence Room»
installation (mumok Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna (2010), Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (2012 / 13), Z33 Hasselt (2011) and was first installed as a participatory art installation and workshop space at ifa Galerie Berlin (2019). The idea is to install a deufert&plischke artwork in a museum or gallery space and then use the created environment to teach workshops alongside the exhibition. At the heart of Las Hilanderas is the myth of Arachne as it appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The myth is presented as the birth myth of political and feminist art, and forms a bridge to activities such as spinning, embroidery, image tracing, embroidery, knitting... All the resulting works enter the installation to create a large carpet/canvas of Arachne. All material is preserved in «memory time capsules», created by deufert&plischke after the exhibition/workshop.
memory time capsule (2013)