A constellation. MORE QUADROTOPIA CARRIAGES. Breathe. Go.
DECONSTRUCTION. Distortion. Distortion. Distortion.

Until the trembling end. Beyond structure. Beyond the system. Beyond authenticity.

Infinite over-chaining. Unconscious self-collective.

THE SPACE OF UNKNOWING, the latest performance and sound installation by Søren Siebel feat. Bas Grossfeldt, functions as a constellation of bodies, space, sculpture and sound and will be performed in relation to Mischa Kuball’s light installation (BLACKOUT) on Saturday, November 27th 2021 at 7 pm at Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl.

THE SPACE OF UNKNOWING is a constellation of bodies, space and sound. In the site-specific performance-installation, semi-transparent fabric walls originally create various rooms in which contemporary dancers interact with the music of Bas Grossfeldt based on a choreography by the artist. The rooms are freely accessible to the audience and the performers move through the audience. In Marl, however, the artist and his performers place the work in direct reference to Mischa Kuball’s light installation (BLACKOUT) and the spatial context of the museum and focus on the definition of spaces through movement and sound.

By shifting perspective, proximity, distance, sound and bodies as moving sculptural elements, atmospheres are created in which various systems and networks of collective and individual identities and relationships are established or broken. The project changes not only thematically and aesthetically between different assumptions, perspectives and perceptions, but also test the limits of its set contexts. The choreography of THE SPACE OF UNKNOWING adapts to the conditions of the place, challenges them at the same time and is designed to exist in dance, theatre or performance, as well as in art or in a club context. With seven or more performers, the artist Søren Siebel and his alter ego Bas Grossfeldt create an atmospheric space of experience that is always new and different and thus also questions own or collectively emerging identities and understands them - almost utopian - as something that is more in constant alignment and reorientation than in static or fixed.

Søren Siebel is a multidisciplinary artist who studied at the Zurich University of the Arts, the Städelschule Frankfurt, the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Cologne Academy of Media Arts. His interests in physical and mental states, identity systems, relationships between groups and individuals are evident in his installations and choreographies in various contexts. As his alter ego Bas Grossfeldt, he released his debut EP Lost In Sensation on the legendary Detroit techno label Metroplex in 2020, as well as an album called Klavier, with Jas Shaw (part of Simian Mobile Disco) as Shaw & Grossfeldt on the UK Label Drone.

THE SPACE OF UNKNOWING evolves from the work The Architecture Of The Unconscious and is nominated for the NRW Bank Art Prize. A documenting video of the work can be found on Youtube.

THE SPACE OF UNKNOWING is supported by the NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative.

With THE SPACE OF UNKNOWING, the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl invites friends and guests for the last time to an event before the long-announced move of the museum. The event takes place under the current Corona guidelines, please check regulations before your visit and try to keep the minimum distance in- and outside the building.

Photo: Mathias Schmitt
Concept: Søren Siebel
Music: Bas Grossfeldt
Choreography: Søren Siebel with Dimitrios Vasilakis & Helen Burghardt
Performer*Innen: Ariel Hayoun, Asuka J. Riedl, Christoph Speit, Dimitrios Vasilakis, Esther Moreno Suárez, Helen Burghardt, Sofia Seta
Production: Søren Siebel
Production Assistant: Kim Manuel Walz & Candela Canellas Daigeler
Architecture Assistent: Maximilian Pichler-Semmelrock & Jonas Klaasen 
Costumes: Søren Siebel