Gob Squad

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Gob Squad is a German-English post-dramatic performance - collective based in Berlin .

history

Establishing history participation is part of some students of the Nottingham Trent University at the Glastonbury Festival in June 1992. This group of participants, who in the course Creative Arts had met, was for his spontaneously planned appearance the name Gob Squad , which in the German translation heap Group reads. The lecturers at Nottingham Trent University at the time also came from the interdisciplinary Fluxus movement , which sought to abolish the separation between art and everyday life.

An additional influence emerged in this preliminary phase through the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . The students at the time, Johanna Freiburg and Berit Stumpf, conveyed this influence during their exchange semester in Nottingham. The German-English performance collective Gob Squad was founded in 1994 from her collaboration with the English students who had participated in the Glastonbury Festival. The founding members were Johanna Freiburg, Alex Large, Sean Patten, Liane Sommers, Berit Stumpf and Sarah Thom.

When it was founded, the following principles were agreed: A director should not be able to take on an autonomous role and traditional theater stages are no longer used as venues. The aim is to carry out performances in real time in real places in public space . In particular, film, visual arts, pop culture and pop music serve as sources of inspiration . The group wants to develop its own forms of work outside of institutional structures. In the early days, performances lasting several hours took place, for example, in public parking lots, in residential buildings and in shopping centers . The group has been supported by organizers since mid-1995. In Germany, for example, the Frankfurt Theater am Turm , the Berlin Podewil and the Hamburg Kulturfabrik Kampnagel appeared as co-producers . This also includes participation in documenta X in 1997.

In 1999, Simon Will joined the group as a new member. In 2001 the two founding members Alex Large and Liane Sommers left the group. Bastian Trost (2003) and Sharon Smith (2007) were accepted as new members .

Since the year 2000, passers-by or spectators have played a major role in the works of Gob Squad. In addition to theater performances, the group also uses the format of radio plays, internet performances, films and videos.

Members

Permanent members are Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost and Simon Will. The following artists have worked with Gob Squad: Stefan Pucher , Elyce Semenec, Miles Chalcraft, Laura Tonke , Till Müller-Klug , Nina Tecklenburg, Daniel Haaksman and Masha Qrella .

Awards

Quote

"Especially when you come from the theater, performance has the greater power of the moment."

- Bastian Trost : Aenne Quiñones (Ed.): Gob Squad. What are you looking at? Alexander, Berlin 2020, p. 36.

See also

Works

Aenne Quiñones has published a detailed catalog of works in her book on Gob Squad.

  • 1994: House → Action in an empty house in Gießen at the Diskurs 94 festival, Institute for Applied Theater Studies
  • 1995: Work → durational performance in which the Gob Squad is watched by spectators in an office for a week
  • 1997: 15 Minutes To Comply → Performance of fifteen minutes on a platform of a subway station in Kassel - created as part of documenta X in Kassel in collaboration with Stefan Pucher
  • 1997: Close Enough to Kiss → first performance in a theater in a kind of mirrored glass box
  • 1998: Calling Laika - a secret meeting under the stars → Performance, a kind in from 30 parked cars in a circle out seance is held in which the performers try messages to All to send
  • 1998: What Are You Looking At? → Durational performance in which the performers celebrate a party locked in a mirrored box
  • 1999: Safe → Gob Squad's first stage show, in which the group tried a rock band to be
  • 2000: Say It Like You Mean It → Performance in which Gob Squad spends the first evening after the end of the world together with the audience
  • 2001: The Great Outdoors → a work for the Podewil in Berlin, where the performers leave the stage one after the other and send messages to the theater via cell phones and video
  • 2003: Room Service (Help Me Make It Through The Night) → takes place in a hotel in which Gob Squad - alone in their rooms - can be watched by cameras for one night
  • 2003: Super NightShot → video - film is shown immediately after its formation on the road in the theater,
  • 2004: The devil is a goldmine in this neighborhood → Gob Squad's first attempt to stage a play, René Pollesch's third part of the Prater Saga - instead of speaking the text himself, Gob Squad casts passers-by on the street for the main roles
  • 2005: King Kong Club → a show in which viewers in monkey costumes take part in the shooting and can then watch the resulting film
  • 2006: Me the Monster → a kind of reintegration program for monsters
  • 2007: Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've never had it so good) → a live film event in the footsteps of Andy Warhol and the 1960s
  • 2008: Saving The World → a 180 degree panorama film
  • 2009: Live Long and Prosper → Two-Screen-Film, in which death scenes from films are newly staged in public space
  • 2010: Revolution Now! → Performance in which, with the help of the audience, revolutionary moments are presented as a real uprising for the camera
  • 2011: Before Your Very Eyes → Performance in which children between eight and fourteen years of age play through their lives in fast-forward from a "safe room".
  • 2012: We Are Gob Squad and So Are You (Adventures In Remote Lecturing) → a lecture-performance on authenticity, truth, fiction and collective identity
  • 2012: The Conversationalist → A tennis match without a ball or a racket as part of the production of the novel Infinite Fun by David Foster Wallace
  • 2013: Dancing About → multi-part piece consisting of various dances made up of set pieces from the night club, ritual ceremony, expressive dance and therapy session
  • 2013: Western Society → Western civilization in the 21st century is shown by re-enacting the “least viewed video on the net” with viewers and becoming the focus of questions that Gob Squad ask of themselves
  • 2015: My Square Lady → robot-reality-opera, in which a robot is taught emotions using the means of opera
  • 2016: War and Peace → Performance in which Gob Squad takes Tolstoy's novel literally in the format of a 19th century salon and, with the help of the audience and a fashion show, asks whether it is possible to lead a moral life in an ethically imperfect world respectively
  • 2018: Creation (Pictures for Dorian) → Performance in which Gob Squad with local actors from younger and older generations ask questions about beauty, morals and aging, inspired by Oscar Wilde's character Dorian Gray
  • 2019: I Love You, Goodbye → Performance event in the format of a cooking show in various editions

literature

  • The Making Of A Memory - 10 years of the Gob Squad is remembered in words and pictures. Synwolt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937065-06-7 .
  • Phil Collins : The collective and the audience. Interview. In: Aenne Quiñones (Ed.): Gob Squad. What are you looking at? Alexander, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-89581-524-9 , pp. 54-101.
  • Miriam Dreysse: living room, subway stations, parking lots and self-reflections. On the early work of Gob Squad . In: Forum Modernes Theater. Edited by Günter Ahrends et al., Issue 1/2006, Volume 21, Tübingen 2006.
  • Kerstin Evert: Verortung 'as a concept: Rimini-Protokoll and Gob Squad. In: Gabriele Klein; Wolfgang Sting (Ed.): Performance. Positions on contemporary scenic art. Bielefeld 2005.
  • Erika Fischer: The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics , 2008
  • Sascha Förster: Gob Squads roads in the city. About the performative experience of urban space in the work of Gob Squad. Master's thesis in theater studies, FU Berlin 2007/2008
  • Johanna Freiburg: Speaking rooms are banal. In: Sign 9. Evictions. On the insolence of thinking of theater as a medium of the future. Edited by Ralph Hammerthaler and Elisabeth Schweeger. Alexander, Berlin 1999, pp. 44-53.
  • Joachim Gerstmeier: Gob Squad. In: Dissimile. Prospections: Young European Art. Edited by Ludger Hünnekens and Matthias Winzen. Baden-Baden 2002, p. / Pp. 60-65
  • Gob Squad & Aenne Quinones (eds.): The Making of a Memory - 10 years remembered in words and pictures , Berlin 2005
  • Gob Squad in conversation with Aenne Quiñones: What do you want, certainty? In: René Pollesch: Prater Saga . Alexander, Berlin 2005, pp. 129-185.
  • Gob Squad: Desire . In: 100 years of the Hebbel Theater. Applied theater lexicon based on Gustav Freytag. Published by Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin 2008.
  • Hans-Thies Lehmann: Post-dramatic theater. Frankfurt am Main 1999, p. / P. 25 & 216f.
  • Annemarie M. Matzke: Testing, playing, tricking, failing. Forms of scenic self-staging in contemporary theater. Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2005, ISBN 3-487-12800-4 .
  • Annemarie M. Matzke: tourists, passers-by, roommates. Strategies of contemporary site-specific theater . In: David Roesner, Geesche Wartemann, Volker Wortmann (eds.): Scenic Places - Medial Spaces. Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2005.
  • Aenne Quiñones (Ed.): Gob Squad. What are you looking at? Alexander, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-89581-524-9 .
  • Aenne Quiñones: "Be Part of Something Bigger." Gob Squad recapture the community. In: Aenne Quiñones (Ed.): Gob Squad. What are you looking at? Alexander, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-89581-524-9 , pp. 22-53.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the founding history, see Aenne Quiñones: "Be Part of Something Bigger." Gob Squad recapture the community. In: Aenne Quiñones (Ed.): Gob Squad. What are you looking at? Alexander, Berlin 2020, pp. 22–53.
  2. ↑ See the two lemmas in Langenscheidts hand dictionary English, Berlin a. a. 1988.
  3. ↑ Aenne Quiñones (Ed.): Gob Squad. What are you looking at? Alexander, Berlin 2020, pp. 27–31 and 37.
  4. ↑ Aenne Quiñones (Ed.): Gob Squad. What are you looking at? Alexander, Berlin 2020, p. 40
  5. ↑ Who's Who?
  6. ↑ OffWestEnd.com - The_offies - The definitive guide to London's Off West End theater scene, featuring listings and details for over 80 theaters, news, discussion and exclusive special offers. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 15, 2014 ; accessed on September 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Tabori Prize 2020 to "Gob Squad" , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on May 20, 2020.
  8. ↑ Aenne Quiñones (Ed.): Gob Squad. What are you looking at? Alexander, Berlin 2020, pp. 102–121.
  9. ↑ Gob Squad. Retrieved December 25, 2018 .