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Performers wanted!

Angie Hiesl + Roland Kaiser are looking for performers (m/f/d) for the project NO-GO (autumn 2025) on the topics of flight, exclusion, and discrimination.
Prerequisite: Own experience with the subject, and willingness to contribute this experience. Strong physical expressiveness and enthusiasm for experimentation as well as good physical fitness for handling large objects (approx. 14kg).
Note: Physical restrictions are not an exclusion criterion.
NO-GO is concerned with the marginalisation of people who are discriminated against on the basis of ethnic origin, ideology, disability,  gender or sexual orientation, for example.
NO-GO creates temporary body-space-language interventions in urban public space, ranging from staging to improvisation, from abstraction to provocation.
Audition
End of June 2025 in Cologne. More details will follow after application.
We look forward to receiving your application with motivation letter, a CV in tabular form, including photos and film footage, at info@angiehiesl-rolandkaiser.de
Application deadline: 31 May 2025
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

 

Outstanding cultural events of the year 2024 - EXTRA_ORDINARY – Retrospective - Insight - Vision is nominated! Please vote!

We are extremely happy, that on behalf of the Cologne Cultural Council, a jury of experts has compiled a list of ten outstanding cultural events of the year 2024 and published them in the Kölnische Rundschau and the Kölner StadtAnzeiger. Our exhibition AUSSER_ORDENTLICH - Retrospective - Insight - Vision is part of it!

Now it's up to you to cast your vote. Only one nomination is possible!

This link takes you to the voting page:
What was your best cultural event of the year 2024 in Cologne?

We would be very happy about many clicks!

Best regards,
Angie Hiesl + Roland Kaiser


EXTRA_ORDINARY - Exhibition tour, 4:09 min.

The exhibition tour of EXTRA_ORDINARY – Retrospective - Insight - Vision is now online!

Last year's exhibition exceeded all our expectations! Over 2,290 people visited the exhibition within 12 days and we received consistently positive feedback from visitors and the press.
We had very exciting conversations and encounters as part of the exhibition and our discursive formats. We are really very happy that we were able to realize our project to this extent and celebrate our 40th anniversary in a fitting manner.

Enjoy your tour!

EXTRA_ORDINARY – Retrospective - Insight - Vision

AUSSER_ORDENTLICH

EXTRA_ORDINARY – Retrospective - Insight - Vision

Intermedia Exhibition

The intermedia exhibition AUSSER_ORDENTLICH – Rückblick - Einblick - Ausblick explores four decades of performance art by Angie Hiesl + Roland Kaiser. It is part of the event series AUSSER_ORDENTLICH - Rückblick - Einblick - Ausblick, which began in 2023 and now ends with this exhibition as the highlight.

The exhibition takes place in the former shoe store Görtz (Neumarkt) - an artistic and cultural revitalization of an empty space in Cologne's city centre!

Vernissage:
Thursday, October 24, 2024, 7 pm
Exhibition:
Friday, 25.10 - Sunday, 27.10.2024
Thursday, 31.10. - Sunday, 03.11.2024
Thursday, 07.11. - Sunday 10.11.2024
opening hours: 12 - 22 pm
Finissage: Sunday, 10.11.2024, 6 pm

LOCATION:
Former Görtz shoe store, Zeppelinstraße 4-8, 50667 Cologne, Germany

More information here!

 

DRESSING THE CITY AND MY HEAD IS A SHIRT # 02

 

Performer: Erika Winkler // © Photo: Roland Kaiser

 

Performance in urban public space

PREMIERE: 08. June 2024
3 pm - 4:30 pm

FURTHER DATES: 15. and 22 June 2024
3 pm - 4:30 pm

 

LOCATION:
The 10 performers will repeatedly appear within the 90 minutes of the performance around Kolpingplatz, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, KOLUMBA Museum und L.-Fritz-Gruber-Platz – and in the streets: Minoritenstraße, Breitestraße to Schwertnergasse, Ludwigstraße, Brückenstraße, Kolumbastraße.

 

DRESSING THE CITY AND MY HEAD IS A SHIRT was created in 2011 with performers aged between 27 and 49. Thirteen years later, this very physical work is being realised with performers aged between 60 and 87.
The relationship between people, clothing and urban space is at the centre of this artistic urban intervention. Clothing is our second skin, the membrane between body and space. It connects the inner and outer world and is a non-verbal means of communication.
Ten performers act in the middle of everyday life in Cologne's city centre. In dialogue with the local conditions, their bodies and various items of clothing interweave with the urban space. The performance creates irritating, abstract and bizarre images.

Hiesl and Kaiser have been exploring the topic of age(ing) in the performing arts for several years. This is also the context for the new production of DRESSING THE CITY AND MY HEAD IS A SHIRT. Due to their age, professional performing artists over 60 are no longer in demand and are increasingly disappearing from the public eye. The project specifically focuses on this age group.

More information HERE

 

AUSSER_ORDENTLICH, Grafikdesign: Steffen Missmahl

(EXTRA_ORDINARY| Retrospective - Insight - Vision)

AUSSER_ORDENTLICH deals with four decades of performance art. With selected performative productions, a multimedia exhibition and discursive formats, we look back on our interventions in private and public urban space. At the same time, we also look forward.

AUSSER_ORDENTLICH kicked off with ...public hair... and now we continue with AUFGELÖST and TALK !N PUBLIC #03. More projects will follow until the end of 2024.

We will keep you updated!

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PUBLICATION

WAR SCHÖN. KANN WEG ... Alter(n) in der Darstellenden Kunst  
(WAS BEAUTIFUL. CAN GO ... Age(ing) in the Performing Arts)

The anthology refers to the symposium under the same title that we organised in 2021 and that met with great interest. The book is at the same time an extension of the discussion that was started then.

How do the performing arts deal with age(ing)? This is the question Angie Hiesl + Roland Kaiser explored. Together with kubia* director Almuth Fricke, they have published the results of their artistic and discursive investigation in this anthology.

People in Germany and many other industrialised nations are getting older and often stay in work longer. Artists, too, are increasingly working into old age. Many do this of their own accord; after all, their creativity does not end when they reach retirement age. The truth is, however, that for financial reasons some people "keep working until we fall off the stage", as performer Lisa Lucassen puts it. But not everyone has this option either: it is still a great exception when professional dancers can continue to work in their "old age", in other words, beyond the age of 40.

The cultural and socio-political challenges of age(ing) in the performing arts, e.g. with regard to old-age provisions and appropriate funding concepts, are explored in depth in personal, academic and cultural-political texts.

WAR SCHÖN. KANN WEG ... Alter(n) in der Darstellenden Kunst 
edited by Angie Hiesl + Roland Kaiser
in collaboration with Almuth Fricke (kubia*)
Published by Theater der Zeit, December 2022

You can order the book online: tdz.de

*kubia = Centre for Creative Ageing and Inclusive Arts