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Monday, September 02, 2013

Augury of Awry Sky / january 2013

Augury of Awry Sky, january 2013 - Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg
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AUGURY OF AWRY SKY

CONCEPT/ CHOREOGRAPHY Marcio Kerber Canabarro 
CREATED AND PERFORMED BY Marcio Kerber Canabarro, Michiel Keuper
ART DIRECTION Michiel Keuper
LIGHT DESIGN Joana Serra Forasté
SOUNDTRACK Michiel Keuper
SONGS WRITTEN BY Townes van Zandt, Beth Orton, Patti Smith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, The National, Sean Rowe
CO-PRODUCED BY Tanztage Berlin | Sophiensaele, premiere january 2013


Augury of Awry Sky, january 2013 - Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg


AUGURY OF AWRY SKY

“I have written things from the sky,
from the sky of the mind, the top of desires, the haven of dreams, from above the memories. the surface of deceit. Sparkling of stars.
I'm anywhere. Between torpor and duties, I have not learned how to give words to issues of feeling.

I land on a corner, making prayers to objects, making stuff, being a poet of the invisible, writing illegible words, building altars in order to proceed and abandon.

sometimes I imagine my fingertips able to touch the soft fur of wills existing in people. once touching flesh, there is time to expand in this tangle of hair. I bow in my knees. I am investigating the silences, not knowing quite well what to do, trusting on sweat. Giving leashes to birds, seeing shadows on chests, leaving the body shed.

Wishes of a sense bore me, I enjoy better all that permeates messy on my being, I am dumb for any subjects. I silently unlearn, browsing the eyes I take notes with my skin.

Stay, holding stimuli meetings, building each quiet cry spiked in the stomach and laughter of tits. I have security of nothing, I keep on risking, risk everything with the chalk that insanity gave in it's fiction. Generating God. Throwing stones into a river, digging into waste, embracing, shaking densities, documenting wind, waiting to be a kite, or a piece of cloud. 

10/11/'12 - 6:51 flight departure time - 2:54 hours from arrival - 11.582,4 meters high“

- Marcio Kerber Canabarro


Augury of Awry Sky, january 2013 - Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg

Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg

Augury of Awry Sky, january 2013 - Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg

Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg

Augury of Awry Sky, january 2013 - Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg

Augury of Awry Sky, january 2013 - Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg

Augury of Awry Sky, january 2013 - Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg

Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg

Augury of Awry Sky, january 2013 - Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg

Augury of Awry Sky, january 2013 - Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg

Augury of Awry Sky, january 2013 - Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg

Augury of Awry Sky, january 2013 - Photo: Anne Sophie Malmberg







Saturday, May 04, 2013

These Children Singing in Stone / December 2012

Hana Lee Erdman - These Children Singing in Stone, dec 2012. Photo: mfk



In december 2012 I did costumes and art direction for the piece "These Children Singing in Stone" by Hana Lee Erdman, for which she collaborated and performed with musician Jassem Hindi. 

Hana Lee Erdman - These Children Singing in Stone, dec 2012. Photo: mfk


Hana Lee Erdman - These Children Singing in Stone, december 2012. Photo: mfk

Hana Lee Erdman - These Children Singing in Stone,
december 2012. Photo Marion Borriss

Hana Lee Erdman - These Children Singing in Stone,
december 2012. Photo Marion Borriss

Hana Lee Erdman - These Children Singing in Stone,
december 2012. Photo Marion Borriss


Hana Lee Erdman - These Children Singing in Stone,
december 2012. Photo Marion Borriss



Thursday, January 24, 2013

AD LIB at Souterrain / December 2012


AD LIB - Peder K. Bugge, Dania Burger, Michiel Keuper, Sarah Steiner
8 - 14 december 2012, at Souterrain, Projektraum, Berlin.
Invited by Isabel Holert and Felix Laubscher


White Series No. 72, No. 50, No. 75, No. 51, No. 61 (left to right), 2012, acrylic on magazine, 28.5 x 36 cm - photo mfk


English - ‘In his work Michiel Keuper (...) lets fabrics disappear that already had been a sewn (fashion) statement. On pages from magazines he erases the traces of fashion by painting them over with white acrylic paint. Bare legs or arms that appear from a diffuse white field, unmask the fashion industry's dream world as an illusion. What is left without clothes and make-up are the aesthetics of a vaguely recognizable posture; a choreography of limbs. Michiel Keuper leads the pictures back into timelessness, where they had been previously exposed to transient trends.' - Isabel Holert (from the introduction)


German - ‘Michiel Keuper (...) lässt in seinen Arbeiten Stoffe verschwinden, die bereits zu einer Aussage genäht waren. Auf Blättern aus Modemagazinen löscht er zumeist mit weißer Acrylfarbe die Spuren von Mode aus, indem er sie übermalt. Nackte Beine oder Arme, die aus einem diffusen weißen Feld hervorstechen, enttarnen die Traumwelt der Modeindustrie als Trugbild. Was ohne Kleidung und Make-up bleibt, ist die Ästhetik einer zu erahnenden Körperhaltung, einer Choreographie der Gliedmaßen. Michiel Keuper führt die Abbildungen zurück in die Zeitlosigkeit, wo sie vorher vergänglichen Trends ausgesetzt waren.’ - Isabel Holert (from the introduction)


White Series - AD LIB at Souterrain, december 2012 - photo mfk


White Series No. 72, No. 50, No. 75 - photo mfk

White Series No. 50, No. 75, No. 51, No. 61 - photo mfk

White Series No. 75, No. 51, No. 61 - photo mfk

AD LIB, overview - Sarah Steiner (left wall), Dania Burger (pillar),
Michiel Keuper (right wall) - photo Isabel Holert

AD LIB, overview - Peder K. Bugge (back wall),
Dania Burger (pillar) - photo mfk

Souterrain, posters at the entrance, december 2012  - photo mfk

Monday, November 12, 2012

White Series IV / 2012

White Series 72 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine

White Series 71 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine

White Series 70 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine

White Series 62 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine

White Series 75 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine



All paintings © Michiel Keuper 2012

Sunday, November 11, 2012

White Series III / 2012

White Series 61 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine 

White Series 38 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine 

White Series 42 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine 

White Series 41 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine 



 All paintings © Michiel Keuper 2012


Sunday, November 04, 2012

White Series II / 2012

White Series 55 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine 

White Series 56 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine

White Series 54 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine

White Series 50 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine

White Series 51 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine

White Series 57 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine

White Series 53 - Michiel Keuper, 2012, acrylic on magazine



All paintings © Michiel Keuper 2012



Thursday, November 01, 2012

You're The One That I Want / Slow version


Summer song. Me and Hana Lee Erdman doing an acoustic version of the Grease classic. With Tom O'Doherty on guitar.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

White Series I / 2011

White Series 21, 2011, acrylic on magazine. © Michiel Keuper


White Series 26, 2011, acrylic on magazine. © Michiel Keuper

White Series 24, 2011, acrylic on magazine. © Michiel Keuper

White Series 15, 2011, acrylic on magazine. © Michiel Keuper

Thursday, October 04, 2012

Lovin's for Fools/ Ponderosa, june 2012



A fragment of our concert at Ponderosa last june. 'Lovin's for Fools' written by Sarah Siskind.Vocals: Hana Lee Erdman, Michiel Keuper. Guitar: Tom O'Doherty. Base: Laurent Lavallé. Video: Kyla Rose Maher via facebook. Thanks Kyla!