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| Photo: Tim Kaiser |
In july I was involved in the project 'Maximum Service at the Church of Beer' during Roskilde Music Festival in Denmark. Choreographer Jeremy Wade invited me, together with artist Anne Sophie Malmberg to collaborate on costumes for the 4-days ongoing open air performance; 'Maximum Service'. He conceived this performative and participatory installation together with the architects of Studio Umschichten from Stuttgart and the artistic team of MS Dockville Kunstcamp from Hamburg, and he performed together with his friend and colleague Miguel Gutierrez from New York.
Umschichten created a massive installation called the 'Church of Beer', for which festival goers were asked to donate their empty beer cans. Jeremy and Miguel adopted their alter egos as Church Ladies who animated, instructed and motivated the people to donate and to participate in decorating the walls of the church with the empty cans. On the last day, a total deposit of 15.000 Danish Kroner were donated to Camp Unicorny, a Danish LGBT youth organisation.
We worked on site, and created improvised and recycled costumes for Jeremy and Miguel, and eventually for the rest of the team, on 4 consecutive days. Photos of each day will follow in upcoming posts.
Umschichten created a massive installation called the 'Church of Beer', for which festival goers were asked to donate their empty beer cans. Jeremy and Miguel adopted their alter egos as Church Ladies who animated, instructed and motivated the people to donate and to participate in decorating the walls of the church with the empty cans. On the last day, a total deposit of 15.000 Danish Kroner were donated to Camp Unicorny, a Danish LGBT youth organisation.
We worked on site, and created improvised and recycled costumes for Jeremy and Miguel, and eventually for the rest of the team, on 4 consecutive days. Photos of each day will follow in upcoming posts.
From the program: This summer the artistic team of MS DOCKVILLE Kunstcamp, Hamburg and Roskilde Music Festival, Denmark, conjointly support the ecstatic initiative of Maximum Service at the Church of Beer. The project brings together American Choreographers Jeremy Wade and Miguel Gutierrez with the Stuttgart based Architectural Team Umschichten and Costume Designers Michiel Keuper with Anne Sophie Malmberg.
Together this band of over thirty five people will provide an area for maximum construction creation and explosive communal activities. The event will begin on June 30 at the Roskilde Festival with a generous donation of beer from the Danish brewery Tuborg.
The architects of Umschichten will facilitate a massive communal construction in which the beer will be consumed by the festival goers and the empty cans will be recycled to serve as the walls of a four story open air church. In the following days, Wade and Gutierrez will serve as Sisters of the Beer Church and conduct a variety of mass dances, rituals and rapturous performances with the festival participants surrounding the church as it rises throughout a four day period.
The costume designers Michiel Keuper and Anne Sophie Malmberg will be plastering the “Church Ladies” and the whole collaborative team with a dazzling attire by transforming found materials from the previous years of festival lost and found including recycled tents, clothes and various industrial materials.
Maximum Service is a critique and subsequent celebration of the church and mass gatherings. The artists of Maximum Service at The Church of Beer working in the disciplines of Architecture, Performance and Design will carry out their research and push their forms to the limit for one of the biggest music festivals in Europe with an audience of one hundred and sixty thousand inebriated participants. This congregation will invite all guests of the Roskilde Festival to partake in a queer church in progress.
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| Photo: Tim Kaiser |
Dorothee Halbrock and Susanne Schick, founders from Kunstcamp MS Dockville are writing about the project on the blog of SPEX Magazine - click here (German).
Video by MS Dockville's Tim Kaiser of the final evening of Maximum Service.
In this video Lukasz Lendzinski from Studio Umschichten is interviewed about the project.
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| Itinerary for the services at the Church of Beer, Roskilde july 2013 - Photo: mfk |
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| Photo: Tim Kaiser |
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| Itinerary for the services at the Church of Beer, Roskilde july 2013 - Photo: mfk |
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| Photo: Tim Kaiser |
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| Itinerary for the services at the Church of Beer, Roskilde july 2013 - Photo: mfk |
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| Photo: Tim Kaiser |
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