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Down to Earth – A Festival As Experiment

A Festival As Experiment
In July 2020, DOWN TO EARTH took place for the first time. Due to the measures taken to contain the Covid19 pandemic, the project was not implemented as a festival but as a research lab for the artists and curators and as a public showing.

The participants used the time of crisis and pause to deepen the ideas behind the original festival concept - sustainability, possibilities of a hopeful future, solidarity - and to adapt them to the current crisis. This also implied a reflection on their own working methods and the impact of the Covid19 pandemic on the performative arts. With the Research Lab, we tried to work sustainably for what will come in the future and to counter the current tendency of (over)production of virtual content. Our work within the Lab was documented in the form of texts, videos and photos. The Research Lab is to be the basis for the next and larger edition of DOWN TO EARTH.

In the frame of the public showing, our main topics were discussed with the audience and the first artistic works resulting from the cooperation were shown:
 ↪  THE GUARDIAN
Agent Recruitment
Juliana Oliveira in collaboration with Lucy Palustris

↪  EXPLORING FOR (Im) POSSIBLE FESTIVALS
Playable micro-festivals
Pekko Koskinen, Thea Reifler

↪  FRAGMENTS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBILITIES
Audiowalk
Leicy Valenzuela & Akseli Aittomäki
Fragments: Hayden Fowler, Juan Gabriel Harcha, Miriam Jakob, Juliana Oliveira.
Felicitas Zeeden, Music: Tripsitterklang (Andrés Andrade)

↪  TEARS OF A BLACK fatherLESSFATHER
Filmscreening (6 min.)
Writer and director: Thabo Thindi, with his son Amari Gaoreletelelwe
Featuring: Amari Gaoreletelelwe, Luam Tschimologo, Elikia Boikany
Voices and music from demos since 2015

↪  LANDFILL
Filmscreening (17 min.)
Writer and director: Patricia Coates
Endurance Performance: Lucy Palustris
Cinematography: Min Bae
Film editors: Min Bae, Patricia Coates

↪  TALK
 With all participants and the audience
With the participation of Akseli Aittomäki, Patricia Coates a.k.a Lucy Palustris, Hayden Fowler, Miriam Jakob, Pekko Koskinen, Matthias Krause, Nat Marcus, Juliana Oliveira, Felix M. Ott, Emmilou Rößling, Caique Tizzi, Thabo Thindi, Pink Valley, Thea Reifler. 
 Curators:: Juan Gabriel Harcha, Elisabeth Leopold, Felicitas Zeeden.

A detailed review of Time to Meet can be found here:  Tanzschreiber - A Proposal for Change 

Down to Earth – Showing Video (©Christian Demarco / Magma)