Philip Bussmann

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Philip Bussmann (2016)

Philip Bußmann (born August 23, 1969 in Hanau ) is a German set designer , video artist , photographer and director .

Life

Philip Bußmann studied stage and costume design with Professor Jürgen Rose at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . After graduating, he moved to New York . He has lived in Frankfurt am Main since 2002 .

Create

In New York, Bußmann worked for eight years as a video and graphic designer for the experimental independent theater group The Wooster Group . His stage video for House / Lights won a Bessie Award. During his time in the USA, he began working in Germany: with Nicolas Stehmann at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg , William Forsythe for the Ballet Frankfurt and Matthias Hartmann at the Schauspielhaus Bochum .

After his return to Germany in 2002, he created further works with Matthias Hartmann and William Forsythe as well as projects with Sasha Waltz , Jean Jourdheuil, Peter Konwitschny , Hans-Werner Kroesinger and Luk Perceval.Since then, he has worked with Forsythe and Perceval for many years.

In 2004 Bußmann founded his own theater group together with the dancer Christopher Roman. Since then, he has been co-directing with the dramaturge Célestine Hennermann under the name 2+ theater projects and installations.

In the following years he worked with Jarg Pataki , Richard Siegal, Ludger Engels , Diane Paulus, Sebastian Baumgarten , Ron Daniels and Sandra Strunz, among others .

Bußmann has been a lecturer at the Academy for Performing Arts in Baden-Württemberg since 2010 . In the 2015 summer semester he was visiting professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

In recent years, in addition to his theater work, Bußmann has increasingly devoted himself to his own installations, photo works and performance projects. His first institutional solo exhibition with extensive video installations and large-format photographic works was shown at the Ursula Blickle Foundation in autumn 2012. It was called Pixelmondo and was curated by Mario Kramer .

The video installation City of Abstracts by William Forsythe, for which Bußmann developed the video software, has been in the turbine hall of the Tate Modern London , the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich , the Nam Jun Paik Art Center Seoul, the Museum für Moderne , among others Kunst Frankfurt and the ICA Boston as well as 2019 in the Museum Folkwang Essen , the SESC Pompeia São Paulo , in the Upper Austrian Kulturquartier Linz and in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston .

In autumn 2015, Bußmann spent three months in Kyoto in the artist residence Villa Kamogawa of the Goethe Institute . During his stay in Japan he dealt with the geisha culture and its roots in traditional Japanese kabuki theater.

Most recently, further work as a video designer and set designer with Luk Perceval, Ulrich Rasche and Anselm Weber was created .

In 2019, three productions were nominated for the Berlin Theatertreffen, in which Bußmann was involved: For Courage and Grace (director: Luk Perceval) he designed the stage design, for Die Perser and Das große Heft (both times directed by Ulrich Rasche) he designed the stage video . The latter was included in the selection of 10 and was invited to Berlin.

Works (selection)

Video design

Stage design

Director

  • 2005: Persona , from 2+, Mousonturm , directors: Philip Bußmann and Célestine Hennermann
  • 2011: Studio Album, by 2+, Mousonturm, directors: Philip Bußmann and Célestine Hennermann
  • 2014: Creating My Own Tomorrow , by 2+, Mousonturm, directors: Philip Bußmann and Célestine Hennermann

Installation / exhibition

  • 2005: City of Abstracts , installation by William Forsythe with video software by Philip Bußmann, various locations
  • 2012: Pixelmondo , exhibition by Philip Bußmann, Ursula Blickle Foundation
  • 2013: Memoirs of a Pole Dancer , installation by Philip Bußmann, Goethe-Institut Montreal
  • 2015: Wabi Sabi , exhibition by Philip Bußmann, Gallus-Theater art foyer

literature

  • Philip Bussmann, William Forsythe, Mario Kramer, Janice Perry, Christine Peters: Pixelmondo . Ed .: Ursula Blickle Foundation. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86828-375-4 (German, English, 160 pages).
  • Andrew Quick: The Wooster Group Work Book . Routledge, New York / London 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-35334-2 (English, 287 pages).

Left

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ from the archives - an excerpt from “On Tour” (2000) - Day Two | THE WOOSTER GROUP. Retrieved March 11, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ Posters | THE WOOSTER GROUP. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Ben Brantley: THEATER REVIEW; A Case For Cubism And Deals With Devils . In: The New York Times . February 3, 1999, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 11, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Award Archive. In: The Bessies. Retrieved March 13, 2019 (American English).
  6. ↑ a b Mysterious template, coherent staging: "Death Valley Junction": Hallucinations and hippies in the valley of death. February 22, 2000, accessed on March 13, 2019 (German).
  7. ^ A b Claudia La Rocco: Love Hurts / Love Hurts . In: The New York Times . April 30, 2006, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 13, 2019]).
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  21. ↑ a b Il Postino From LA Opera | About the Opera | Great Performances | PBS. In: Great Performances. November 1, 2011, Retrieved March 26, 2019 (American English).
  22. ↑ a b Katrin Ullmann: Falling Man - Sandra Strunz opens the converted Thalia in Gaußstrasse with nine-eleven scenarios based on Don DeLillo. Retrieved on March 27, 2019 (German).
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  26. ↑ a b Ursula Blickle Foundation: 09.09. - 14.10. 2012 Timewave Zero. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  27. ^ A b William Forsythe Choreographic Objects: Objects. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
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  29. ↑ Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa: Philip Bußmann / フ ィ リ ッ プ ・ ブ ス マ ン （Villa Kamogawa scholarship holder, Sep. - Dec. 2015 / ヴ ィ ラ 鴨 川 滞 在 2015 年 9 月 ～ 12 月）. April 13, 2016, accessed March 27, 2019 .
  30. ↑ a b c The German stage. Retrieved April 5, 2019 .
  31. ↑ a b Shirin Sojitrawalla: Courage and Grace - Luk Perceval's uncompromising evening about love and dying at the Frankfurt theater. Retrieved on April 5, 2019 (German).
  32. ↑ a b KULTURA-EXTRA, the online magazine. Retrieved April 5, 2019 .
  33. ↑ a b The world are two discs. August 20, 2018, accessed April 5, 2019 .
  34. ^ A b c Valentina Tepel: Voices of a City - Anselm Weber stages three monodramas in Frankfurt by Wilhelm Genazino, Olga Grjasnowa and Teresa Präauer. Retrieved on April 5, 2019 (German).
  35. ↑ Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen - productions under discussion in 2019. Accessed on July 24, 2019 .
  36. ↑ Berliner Festspiele: Theatertreffen - Selection of 10 2019. Accessed on July 25, 2019 .
  37. ↑ THE HAIRY APE | THE WOOSTER GROUP. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  38. ^ Charles Isherwood, Charles Isherwood: To You, the Birdie! In: Variety. February 26, 2002, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  39. ↑ * OFFOFFOFF dance review WILLIAM FORSYTHE: DECREATION about love, lust, lies, overwhelming sound by William Forsythe with Yoko Ando, ​​Cyril Baldy, Esther Balfe, Dana Caspersen, Amancio Gonzalez, David Kern, Fabrice Mazliah, Roberta Mosca, Tilman O'Donnell , Nicole Peisl, George Reischl, Christopher Roman, Jone San Martin, Parvaneh Scharafali, Yasutake Shimaji, Richard Siegal, Elizabeth Waterhouse, Ander Zabala. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
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  41. ^ Il mondo della luna | Some Modest Proposals. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
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  43. ↑ How high is Princess Salome tonight. May 12, 2018, accessed March 26, 2019 .
  44. ^ A b Claudia Schülke: "Voices of a City": Frankfurter Panorama . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 15, 2019]).
  45. ↑ NORMA - great singers, questionable production. In: opera figures. March 9, 2020, accessed on March 18, 2020 (German).
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  47. ↑ 2 + studio album / dance performance on 11/18/11. In: 2 + studio album / dance performance on 18/11/11. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  48. ↑ Platonov. Retrieved March 30, 2019 (Dutch).
  49. ↑ from MADE.Festival: CREATING MY OWN TOMORROW • 2+ (Bußmann / Hennermann) | MADE.Festival. Retrieved on March 26, 2019 (German).
  50. ↑ The urge to move versus sacred art. September 26, 2014, accessed March 29, 2019 .
  51. ^ NTM - Nationaltheater Mannheim - Acting - Waiting for Godot. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  52. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: In the cage of lies. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  53. ^ Leonard Wüst: Grand théatre de Gèneve, Die Entführung aus dem Seraglio, January 22, 2020, visited by Gabriela Bucher - Liechti. In: Central Switzerland Online. Accessed March 1, 2020 (German).
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  56. ↑ from MADE.Festival: CREATING MY OWN TOMORROW • 2+ (Bußmann / Hennermann) | MADE.Festival. Retrieved on March 26, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Bussmann, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer, video artist, photographer and director
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau