A Timeline for CORHYTHM
Concept: Nicole Wendel
Performance and Video: Nicole Wendel
Sound and Editing: Olaf Schulz
Berlin 2021
This Video was developed for the CORHYTHM Performances at Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, 2021 and at Mahalla Berlin, 2021. The material is scratched into the board and makes the underneath structure visible as a physical dialogue line by line, recording time while the film moves backwards.
CORHYTHM_TIMELINE, 40min., Mahalla, Berlin, 2021
Concept and idea: Nicole Wendel, performers: Cinzia Schincariol, Yuya Fujinami, Nicole Wendel, Performance Setting: table 70 x 280 x 75cm, blackboard 70 x 140cm, camera, sound and editing: Ed James, Mahalla, Berlin, 2021
Concept and idea: Nicole Wendel, performers: Cinzia Schincariol, Yuya Fujinami, Nicole Wendel, Performance Setting: table 70 x 280 x 75cm, blackboard 70 x 140cm, Camera, Sound and Editing: Ed James, Mahalla, Berlin, 2021
What and how strongly do we remember? How can the absent unfold anew in the reading and the emerging of a trace? What is its sound? Where are the boundaries of the physical and where is the transition into the multi-layered nature of spaces? Three performers create through their movements with stones a two- and threedimensional graphic score. Repetitive sequences generate a common rhythm, which also creates a connection to ritualized processes or archaic everyday activities. The material is written line by line on a board as a physical dialogue, recording time while the accompanying film moves backwards.
CORHYTHM, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, 2020
Concept: Nicole Wendel, Performance: Johanna Ackva and Nicole Wendel, Performance Setting: table 60 x 400 cm, pieces of charcoal, paper, Camera: Max Hilsamer, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
The line is the score for the performance CORHYTHM. Pieces of charcoal are moved back and forth on white paper through repetition, creating a dialogue sequence of movement. Out of the moment, following the line, a common navigation emerges that creates a visual and acoustic rhythm. Reminiscent, as it were, of archaic everyday actions and ritualised processes, the performance allows its own contemplative space to emerge.
CORHYTHM, Drawing Center Diepenheim, 2019
HD-Video, 16:01min., Concept: Nicole Wendel, Performance: Johanna Ackva with Nicole Wendel, Original Duration: 40min., Material: Table 60cm x 450cm, paper and black chalk, Camera and Editing: Susanna Brenner, Drawing Center Diepenheim, 2019
This version of CORHYTHM was performed at the opening of the exhibition Embodied Lines curated by Nanette Kraaikamp at Drawing Center Diepenheim.
CORHYTHM, Kunsthaus, Potsdam, 2019
Concept: Nicole Wendel, Performance: Johanna Ackva and Nicole Wendel, Performance Setting: table 60 x 400 cm, pieces of charcoal, paper, Camera: Max Hilsamer, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin
The line is the score for the performance CORHYTHM. Pieces of charcoal are moved back and forth on white paper through repetition, creating a dialogue sequence of movement. Out of the moment, following the line, a common navigation emerges that creates a visual and acoustic rhythm. Reminiscent, as it were, of archaic everyday actions and ritualised processes, the performance allows its own contemplative space to emerge.
CORHYTHM, 2018
Concept: Nicole Wendel, Performance: Nicole Wendel and Audrey Rose Burden
Video, Sound and Editing: Oliver Stritzke, Hegenbarth Collection, Berlin 2018
How do we navigate in relation to each other? How do we organize our movements on a defined limited area? When does a common rhythm develop? Where do we leave expectations and let new impulses, new qualities emerge? Nicole Wendel (visual artist) and Audrey Rose Burden (dancer) use a graphic score with original chalk pieces from the german island Rügen on a black paper and create a rhythmic sequence of movements that generates itself through repetition. Their almost ritualized processes are reminiscent of archaic everyday activities, such as washing, sanding or cleaning. The material is written into the sheet as a physical dialogue line by line, recording time.