Live Works Open Studios
Showing by Chōri Collective , Omar Gabriel Delnevo
In the frame of Fold – Spring Break
Initiated in 2013, Live Works is a platform dedicated to live contemporary practices that contribute to deepening and broadening the idea of performance, following the current evolution of performance and its styles. Live Works offers annual fellowships to 6 artists selected via Open Call every year and includes different creative residency periods at Centrale Fies and in partner institutions at an international level. Live Works sees performance as a work space, and as an instrument and cultural exercise. Starting from the notion of performance in the visual art practice, the project is unique in its particular attention to hybrid research, underlining the openness and fluidity of performance, its particular attention to hybrid research, underlining the openness and fluidity of performance, its social and political implications and its level of public understandability.
The works are funded by Centrale Fies, Dro (It).
Accessibility
The works are funded by Centrale Fies, Dro (It).
Accessibility
The event will take place in Studio 4. Studio 4 is completely at ground level and therefore accessible without steps. Wheelchair spaces and beanbags are available. The barrier-free toilet is located in the foyer of the studio, in front of Studio 3. Early boarding (early seating) is offered 5 minutes before the performance. Please talk to our team at arrival.
If you have any further questions about the access requirements for this performance, please contact: access@tanzfabrik-berlin.de
Further information on accessibility can be found on our website: https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/en/barrierefreiheit#
Content Note / Sensory Stimuli
The languages spoken during the sharing of Chōri Collective will be English, Urdu, Korean and Thai. The sound will be loud at times and some sudden outbursts can appear. Some sections of the sharing will include complete darkness of the performance space. Topics such as discrimination will be adressed.
If you have any further questions about the access requirements for this performance, please contact: access@tanzfabrik-berlin.de
Further information on accessibility can be found on our website: https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/en/barrierefreiheit#
Content Note / Sensory Stimuli
The languages spoken during the sharing of Chōri Collective will be English, Urdu, Korean and Thai. The sound will be loud at times and some sudden outbursts can appear. Some sections of the sharing will include complete darkness of the performance space. Topics such as discrimination will be adressed.
The sharing of Omar Gabriel Delnevo will be held in English and Portuguese.
Chōri Collective
Chōri Dance
In “Chōri Dance” (wt), artists* from different Asian countries symbolically take ‘Asian’ cuisine as an opportunity to explore the characteristics of Asian bodies and to find out where the questions and stories of the individual artists intersect. Each artist dedicates him/herself to his/her individual and national history by selecting and embodying an ingredient. How can the different ingredients retain their own flavour? Using the means of video, sound and performance, the performers* in ‘Chōri Dance’ (wt) allow different identities to meet and open up a space for shared experience and dialogue. Against the backdrop of the culinary metaphor, a critical and lively archive of long-standing collaborations is created.
Omar Gabriel Delnevo
Omar Gabriel Delnevo
(p-)repaired piano
How can an instrument that has been turned into a mechanical machine be reanimated? How can artists return to the origins of their own work and evoke something new from it? At the centre of Omar's ‘(p)repaired piano’ (wt) is the attempt to deconstruct the prepared piano as an extended technique of piano playing and to use this deconstruction for a comprehensive examination of their musical biography. The piano itself a long-time companion of Omar becomes a means of research in order to elicit from their memory the musical currents that influenced their artistic work. The berimbau joins in as an ancestral voice that harks back to Omar's childhood. Omar embarks on a transcorporeal exploration with these instruments, which are related in their principles and material, and allows them to enter into a dynamic exchange process. The piano becomes a vessel for the spirit of the berimbau and thus experiences new and previously unknown ways of playing.
Chōri Collective
Chōri Collective is an artist platform that fosters collaboration among Asian artists, using culinary metaphors to examine histories of colonialism and structures that regulate our bodies. Unlike Yōri (요리/料理), which focuses on crafting a refined final dish, Chōri values the transformative process. In our practice, we suggest a metaphor of our bodies as food and the structures of power that record them as recipes, to decompose and further understand them as ferments.
Omar Gabriel Delnevo
Omar Gabriel Delnevo (they/their/them) is a musician* and sound artist*, of Jamaican, Italian and Brazilian background. Their work is rooted in sound and music as a listening practice, a magnifying lens on the world and their experience of it, but blossoms in many other directions and medias, such as body performance and film. Their work reflects around the refraction of identity and memories, and how they weave into the experience of diasporic and queer bodies.
Duration: ca. 120 Minuten
Admission free. First come first served.
Admission free. First come first served.
Chōri Collective
Performance: Yuni Hoa Yun Chung (she/her), Mon Sisu Satrawaha (she/her, they/them), Mudassir Sheikh (he/him)
Performance: Yuni Hoa Yun Chung (she/her), Mon Sisu Satrawaha (she/her, they/them), Mudassir Sheikh (he/him)
Funded by Centrale Fies, Dro (It) and supported by Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Omar Gabriel Delnevo
Concept & performance: Omar Gabriel Delnevo
Funded by Centrale Fies, Dro (It) - Live Works 2025 Agitu Ideo Gudeta Fellowship in collaboration with Palazzo Grassi and Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo. Supported by Tanzfabrik Berlin.