“Besuch” means “visit” (n.). Five artists meet inside a digital collage, inviting the audience to tour
within its connotations. What kind of narratives arise by their common experience of intimacy?
Five years after completing their dance education together, Besuch team is exploring a diverse range of performative and compositional approaches. With “Besuch” they are experimenting with possible ways of coming together and engaging with each other artistically. The transmedial approach, the misspelling of the dancing tradition, the flirtation with idiocy, the sensuality of the corporeal experience and the “imaginative dance”, act as five original calling cards which mark the starting points of their first work together as a team.
A shared digital document of instructions filled with colorful ideograms, a microscopic plan made large-scale, a DIGI-persona, a painting of sensorial stimuli and a contract via post are the jointly common score to which the team commits. They exchange these five materials and promise to pay each other’s proposal a visit by means of a one-minute performance. Finally, they co-edit the 25 variations and thus compose “Besuch”. In turn, they are now inviting audiences to visit both the traces of their encounters as well as their collective artistic imprint.
The Besuch team meets in virtual environments which constitute the loci of their artistic interactions. They commit themselves, over the period of a month, to dig down into their varied approaches, exchanging aesthetic modes and co-configuring a diverse universe to inhabit the screen. The “performance” is to be presented in the form of a video-collage that captures a multilayered choreographic composition.