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HAPPY FOREVER
2012 an art installation made with abandoned objects from the cellars of Palazzo Wyler. The Palazzo Wyler was a housing block riddled with asbestos and therefore condemned to be demolished.In 2012, for an interstice before its demolition, the owner of the building (the Wyler-Baugesellschaft Bern AG) gave a group of Bernese artists free reign over […]
SHADOWS
2022 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS BÜHNE AARAU TOJO THEATER BERN GRABENHALLE ST-GALLEN SCHATTENTHEATER IN SCHWÄBISCH GMÜND Hansueli Trüb is the only one in Switzerland today to create shadow theatre with the technical possibilities of today. “SHADOWS” is a succession of small scenes in which the shadow player loses himself, plays, has fun and finds himself again. […]
ALLE DEINE NAMEN
2011-2013 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS GARE DU NORD BASEL SCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN THEATER WINKELWIESE ZÜRICH BÜHNE AARAU KLEINTHEATER LUZERN THEATER DIE TONNE REUTLINGEN (DE) Plunge into the poetic world of Raphael Urweider. “Alle Deine Namen” is 26 poems about women’s first names, arranged in alphabetical order. Astride Schlaefli and Anna Trauffer met the author and decided […]
ATTEINTES A LA PUDEUR (Breaches of modesty)
2008 A series of weekly performances in public places (Biel/Bienne) The Collectif barbare offers their public of passers-by a repertoire of unusual images and moments that open up an unexpected and refreshing margin of reflection. These actions inhabit the borderline between performance and reality, so that the pedestrians and audience don’t know whether they are […]
CRESCENDO MORTALE
2005 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS SCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN OORSMEER FESTIVAL Performance for 47 pianos and the same number of children as part of the “Oorsmeer” festival at the Schlachthaus Theater and the Music School of Bern. October 2005. CONCEPT, DIRECTION, COMPOSITION Astride Schlaefli Trailer Galerie
THE APPLE
2004 …or or how to smash an apple while listening to the Goldberg Variations Performance at the KlangKunstBühne (Universität der Künste in Berlin), 2004. Trailer Galerie
ICH MOECHTE NUR NOCH SPIELEN
2015 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS THEATER WINKELWIESE ZÜRICH BÜHNE AARAU TOJO THEATER BERN FORUM NEUE MUSIK LUZERN A musical theater inspired by Max Frisch’s “Drafts for a Third diary” and interpreted by the six men of the “ensemble für neue musik zürich” on the occasion of their 30th anniversary. The small village of Berzona in Ticino […]
IN FLAGRANTE
2010 Five performances of the Collectif barbare in public spaces, stemming from the experimentation of the earlier “Atteintes à la pudeur” (“Breaches of modesty”). Five actions which question the relationship between passers-by and public space, between art and civil society, and which are characterized by the ambiguity of their form, suspended between staging and distortion […]