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Friday, December 19, 2014

Visible Undercurrent / Review, november 2014

Visible Undercurrent by Peter Pleyer, Sophiensaele Berlin, November 2014. The dancers, from left to right, Asaf Aharonson, Mor Demer, Marcio Canabarro and Paul Singh. Photo Michiel Keuper.

Last November I did costumes and set design for 'Visible Undercurrent', a dance performance by Peter Pleyer that premiered at Sophiensaele in Berlin. We got a great review in TAZ by Astrid Kaminski. The capture read: Form is Sensation. Click for the full read (in German) here


Visible Undercurrent, review by  Astrid Kaminski in TAZ, 17 November 2014.


Visible Undercurrent by Peter Pleyer, Sophiensaele Berlin, November 2014. The dancers, from left to right, Asaf Aharonson, Mor Demer, Marcio Canabarro and Paul Singh. Photo Michiel Keuper.






Thursday, December 11, 2014

Ponderosa Trilogy / Art Direction & Photography, Fall 2014

Peter Pleyer, Ponderosa Trilogy - Photo/ Art Direction: Michiel Keuper 2014


This fall I did a art direction and photography series for promotion material for Peter Pleyer's piece Ponderosa Trilogy. Combining digital photography and an analog cut & paste aesthetic.


Peter Pleyer, Ponderosa Trilogy - Photo/ Art Direction: Michiel Keuper 2014


Peter Pleyer, Ponderosa Trilogy -
Photo/ Art Direction: Michiel Keuper 2014

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Blanket Project / Ponderosa Stolzenhagen, summer 2014


This summer, out at Ponderosa Stolzenhagen, I worked on a Blanket Project. One evening at sunset I invited my friends Hana Lee Erdman and Jesse Hewit to perform with them. 

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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Gouache on Paper / november 2013

Michiel Keuper - Untitled, 2013, gouache on paper, 29.7x21cm

Michiel Keuper - Untitled, 2013, gouache on paper, 29.7x21cm

Michiel Keuper - Untitled, 2013, gouache on paper, 29.7x21cm


Michiel Keuper - Untitled, 2013, gouache on paper, 29.7x21cm










Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Together Forever / february 2014



All photos: Michiel Keuper. Click photos for slide show.

Stage design for 'Together Forever', a performance by Jeremy Wade. From and with Liz Rosenfeld, Igor Koruga, Jared Gradinger, Jeremy Wade and Michiel Keuper. 
Premiered 28 february at Hebbel am Ufer / HAU 3, Berlin.

From the program: "Together forever is the promise of eternal love that we’ve heard a thousand times in kitschy pop songs. Yet in this title, it hints at the extent to which people truly rely on each other. In his new piece, dancer and choreographer Jeremy Wade and four further performers experiment with caring situations and forms of tender complicity, while probing the social and political implications of community, love and affection. 
 
What can we only do together – what can’t we do alone? What does being there for someone mean? And what might forms of togetherness look like in the future? 
After Jeremy Wade’s shows “Fountain” and “To The Mountain” at the HAU, which was centred on rituals alchemy and transformation of group dynamics, he returns with his new production, “Together forever”. This collaboration with dancers and choreographers Igor Koruga and Jared Gradinger, the performance artist and film-maker Liz Rosenfeld and the visual artist Michiel Keuper takes the hackneyed but ever-hopeful promise of eternal love back to its origins. 
  
But the focus of the show is not on relationships between couples: instead, it is an attempt to explore gentle forms of closeness beyond coupledom. (...) Real and imagined stories of togetherness and visions of intimate communities are narrated, explored and ritually considered here – concretely as a tangible creation of the here-and-now of the performance, but also as a model that has political and social implications: Do we – or don’t we – want to live in a world in which our fundamental needs are regarded not just as individual and personal but also as a social issue?" 



Monday, February 03, 2014

Gouache on Paper / november 2013

Michiel Keuper - Untitled, 2013, gouache on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm


Michiel Keuper - Untitled, 2013, gouache on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm

Michiel Keuper - Untitled, 2013, gouache on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm

Michiel Keuper - Untitled, 2013, gouache on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm

Michiel Keuper - Untitled, 2013, gouache on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm

Michiel Keuper - Untitled, 2013, gouache on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm








Sunday, February 02, 2014

Divine Love Electric / january 2014



All photos: Michiel Keuper. Click photo for slideshow.

Art Direction and Design for 'DIVINE LOVE ELECTRIC' by Hana Lee Erdman in collaboration with Allison Lorenzen. Premiered 8 january 2014 at Tanztage in Sophiensaele Berlin.

From the program: "DIVINE LOVE ELECTRIC (DLE) is a New Spiritual Movement seeking to inspire universal inspiration and love and happiness. Founded in 2013 to encompass a way of life, DLE integrates devotional practices, ritual, spiritual and corporal teachings to inspire others to experience the fullness of their potential and truest selves. Endowed with an entourage of devotees, the Movement has attracted followers and contributors, including acclaimed designer Michiel Keuper, who, employing sacred mathematics, transformed The Kantine into a temporary Ashram. This week the co-founders perform an original soundtrack of luminous dream pop while directing internalized spiritual journeys and ritual communal actions."

Concept, Direction, Performance - Hana Lee Erdman, Allison Lorenzen / Design, Art Direction - Michiel Keuper / Dramaturgy - Ruairí Donovan / Temple Drummer, Spiritual Brother - Laurent Lavolé / Devotees - Louise Trueheart, Agnė Auželytė

Dark Material / august 2013



All photos: Michiel Keuper. Click photo for slideshow. 

Costumes for 'DARK MATERIAL' a collaboration by choreographer Jeremy Wade  and performer Maria F. Scaroni, visual artist Monika Gzrymala and indie avant-gardist Jamie Steward aka Xiu Xiu and Shayna Dunkelman. Commissioned by International Sommer Festival Kampnagel, Hamburg and Donau festival Krems. Premiere 8 august 2013.


From the press release: "(...) Together these specialists of different fields are working on experimental spatial drawings with various black materials. The work is inspired by Gzrymala's epic signature paper tape drawings that have been exhibited worldwide, producing diagrams of sensations, desires and affections. Wade and Scaroni enter a grotesque/queer/gothic pas de deux about human attachments and dependencies, proximity and distance, and the endurance, with which one turns towards the object of desire, even if it hurts."


By - Jeremy Wade, Jamie Steward and Monika Gzrymala / Performers - Jeremy Wade, Maria F. Scaroni / Sound - Jamie Steward, Shayna Dunkelman / Set Design - Monika Gzrymala / Dramaturgy - Eike Wittrock / Costume - Michiel Keuper