Author: Johannes Birlinger

Wie überlebe ich meinen ersten Kuss?

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Theater Strahl Berlin. Directed by Betty Hensel. 2011.

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“Wie überlebe ich meinen ersten Kuss” is a theatrical performance for young audiences, ages 12 – 16. The original play by the Dutch playwright Francine Oomen also included a number of songs by Bas Odijk. I arranged the original band-scores into electronic live music, changing and adding quite a lot as well as composing a couple of additional titles.

Credits:

Premiere: June 7th 2011
Director: Betty Hensel
Set Design: Daniele Drobny
Costume Design: Laura Burkhardt
Music: Johannes Birlinger
Lighting Design: Arne Schmitt
Video: Jennifer Kuntscher
Dramaturgy: Oliver Kahrs
Assistant Director: Anna Vera Kelle

Performers:

Kristin Becker
Christian Giese
Franz Lenski
Andreas Schwankl
Anna Trageser
Yvonne Yung Hee Bormann

Hold a seashell to your ear – doesn’t it sound just like the static in your phone?

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Installation and phone-performance. Omenapuutalo. Helsinki 2017.

  • Photo by Antti Ahonen

In this long distance performance I tried to address the difficulty of working and living in different places at the same time. The group exhibition “MAECP at work” in Helsinki was happening at the same time as an important show in Hamburg. So I decided to be present in Helsinki through an open phone line – the visitors of the exhibition were listening to everything that was happening on my side through speakers in the space and could engage in conversation with me. The video was a long loop of the evening sky over Porkkala Niemi, one of my favourite place.

Spring

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Interactive Sound Installation. Ballhaus Ost, Berlin. 2016.

Spring deals with questions of authorship, chance, performativity of the more-than-human. At the core of this 4 channel audio work is an ice block. The ice block melts, the sounds made by water dripping on various materials is being picked up by microphones and can be manipulated by the audience via two media controllers.