PREMIERE Co-production "transformers #1 (mom & me)" aka "five hundred thousand years of movement” by Karin Pauer

transformers #1 (mom & me)

Karin Pauer presents her first event in a performance series called transformers.

transformers #1 is both, a solo and a duet of the performer and her mom.

Investigating evolution, change and transformation she is creating a sculputural and organic field of exploration.
Using mixed material objects, she creates a utopian landscape which is both environment and tool for body-alterations.
It is the starting point for a collective imaginative experiment which appeals to the flexibility of the mind and the ability to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances and surroundings.

transformers is a constant investigation of the ‚next form’.
It is a practice of change and a disappointing but hopeful attempt at becoming the person/ being one was always meant to be.

With the part mom& me she is collaborating with her mother to create a work which examines the changes we go through within our lifetime.

Using comparative strategies and self-irony the mother - daughter duet is offering a more zoomed-in perspective on the topic.

succession/ reverse anthromorphism/ nextness/ a hole in the world in the shape of me/ the only constant is change/ five hundred thousand years of movement/ better version of myself/ feeling eternal/ you are my future/ you are my past/ turning into your own mother/ will my old hair be as pretty as yours?

Supported by Nadalokal and Liquid Loft

Karin Pauer (AT) Idea/ Performance/ Choreography/ Objects

Johanna Pauer (AT) Performance/ Objects

Karin Pauer is an austrian dancer and choreographer. She received her BA in Choreography at the ArtEZ – Insitute of Arts in Arnhem/ The Netherlands.

She has collaborated in various international settings with choreographers, theatre directors, film makers and visual artists such as Davis Freeman/ Random Scream, Yun Jung Kim, Marcus Grolle, Michael Schmidt, Mike O’Connor, Simone Truong, Maureen Kägi and Veronika Franz.

Since 2015 she is continuously working with the austrian dance company Liquid Loft/ Chris Haring,

Her own works have been presented at the Leopold Museum/ Vienna, at Festspielhaus St.Pölten, ImFlieger/ Vienna, Nadalokal/ Vienna and the ükler kuklar festival/ Istanbul amongst others.

She was a recipient of the danceWEB scholarship in 2009 and the TURBO Residency in 2012, both at ImPulsTanz/ Vienna.