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Still trying to figure out how best to use this page. But in the meantime, here’s one of the things I’m up to:

The Weimar project, MONOkultur, premieres June 13. I shot video with them today in a weird open elevator called paternoster which in Latin means “Our Father”. This exists 10 times in Berlin and doesn’t exist at all in America. It’s really cool. It was at the financial office, the building that is the center of taxes for all of germany. It surprisingly ended up being a fun place to be, all because of the Paternoster.

“A Paternoster lift [wiki] is a cyclic elevator with “an endless chain of cabins moving at a moderate speed; some passing downward past a line of entrances and other cages moving upward past another set of openings. Passengers may embark or alight at any floor whenever they please, without delay. ” (As seen on TV!) They’re still in use in the the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, and the UK among other places.”

Actually, Monokultur’s director, “Schnigg”, told me that Germany has banned people from building anymore Paternosters. I don’t blame them because if you stick your arm or your hair a little too far out there, you’re dead.

I’ve been asked to work on an upcoming project with Julian Hetzel and Timm Burkhardt called Monokultur. The live dance/video/music/theater part of it will be shown June 13, 2008 at E-Werk in Weimar, Germany.   It’s a diploma project for the Bauhaus Universität Weimar.

www.YouAreWatchingUs.com/monokultur

Music: www.pentatones.de 

Check out this great article in Rivet Magazine by the Seattle’s On the Board’s director, Lane Czaplinski, on Constanza Macras.

The Incredible Shrinking, Shifting, and Subtle Enterprise of Art

by Lane Czaplinski

The theater lights go down, and a woman in a red dress walks to center stage. She’s lithe and beautiful and dances an athletic, salsa-tinged solo. All sorts of mayhem follow. Actors tell jokes and make pratfalls. Dancers gyrate sex club moves and music video choreography. A live band covers a Bon Jovi song while its singers eat saltine crackers. A projected video shows a woman clad in a bra and panties running through a warehouse screaming.
Constanza Macras’ BRICKLAND | photo by Thomas Aurin

My next shows: March 27, 28, 29 in the Schaubuehne am Lehnier Platz, Berlin. Directed by Constanza Macras.
see: www.dorkypark.org

Currently working on a photo and performance project with Margret Sara Gudjonsdottir entitled “Blonde on Beige”. Photographed by Tom Akinleminu. Christina Wagner is helping us with the makeup. Subject: performing without    exhibitionism, hiding in broad daylight, beige camouflage.