2 December 2018 4 - 6 pm

A durational performance by Rūta Junevičiūtė, Lilach Livne and Emmilou Rößling in collaboration with Goshka Macuga

Water Cooler Chat is a transitory time rocking back and forth, pondering on the preciousness of a passage. It is searching for an amplitude of casual intimacy, while unfolding in tender gestures of female companionship. It penetrates iconography, sculpture and choreography, seeking to escape the world of categories towards the liminal and the accidental. Three women place themselves on the periphery of events, becoming the negative peak of the unspectacular, the uncanny and the slow. Dealing with the paralyzing state of being overwhelmed, Water Cooler Chat is a blob of different materials that are asking the viewers to create their own experience by zooming into single details and leaving out others. It is performatively rethinking and newly embeds tapestries and costumes made by visual artist Goshka Macuga, allowing for different propositions to surface from a pool of mixed potentials and pre-existing artworks. It is always still in the making while at the same time trying to grasp the tail of the image that simultaneously precedes and follows.

Rūta Junevičiūtė is Lithuanian interdisciplinary artist and cultural agent based in Amsterdam, where she is recently studying choreography at the School for New Dance Development. Between 2011–2016 she has had a number of positions within Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, having worked on projects such as solo exhibitions by Raimundas Malašauskas and Eglė Budvytytė and XI Baltic Triennal of International Art. She holds degrees in Art Theory and Fine Arts.

Lilach Livne (1986, Israel) is an artist focusing on the relationship between choreography, dance, philosophy and community. Her work has been presented at the 20th Sydney Biennale, Salonul De Projecte gallery Bucharest, Convenry University UK and at CCA TLV amongst others. Recently her practice book Prayer for the Abstract was published by Circadian Berlin. Lilach holds a BA in Philosophy and Gender Studies from the Tel-Aviv University, she studied choreography at SNDO Amsterdam and Experimental Dance at SEAD Salzburg.

Emmilou Rößling (1991, Berlin) is a choreographer and performer. She has been presented in venues such as Mousonturm FFM, Sophiensaele Berlin, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Scena Robocza Poznan and Palais de la Porte Dorée Paris. Emmilou works in different constellations with Antonia Baehr, Valérie Castan, Ivana Müller, Mette Edvardsen, Tom Engels, Quast&Knoblich and others. Emmilou holds an MA in Choreography from the JLU Gießen.

Goshka Macuga was born in 1967 in Warsaw, Poland, and lives and works in London. Her recent solo exhibitions include „Now this, is this the end … the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?” at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2016); „Goshka Macuga“, New Museum, New York (2016) “To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll” at Fondazione Prada, Milan (2016). Goshka Macuga was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008.