with Steffi Sembdner


Since 2014, I’ve worked closely with the choreographer and dancer Steffi Sembdner on multiple sound scores, collaboratively conducting ongoing research into body, sound, and space.



„Mund“ (2014)
„Mund“ is a meditation on the never-ending effort to develop a language for the body that makes the hidden visible, an existential research about the body and the space. The three performers in „Mund“ attempt to describe a body within a space and a space within a body.


Konzept/Choreographie/Text: Steffi Sembdner
Sound: Andrea Steves
performance: Laressa Dickey, Barbara Berti, Jacques-André Dupont



„meer im mund (solo-work)“ (2014)


meer im mund delves deeper into the core questions of the original work: What is one's own 'self' and how is it expressed physically? What becomes visible and how much of it corresponds to the self-image? Where does the inside begin and where does the outside end? Dance and movement are ways of verbalizing these complex relationships. Steffi Sembdner views the body as a mirror and source of personal and social connections.


Choreographie/Tanz/ Bühne/Licht: Steffi Sembdner
Sound: Andrea Steves
Kostüm: Sabine Sembdner



„mitteschön“ (2019)


Tanz/Choreographie/Text: Julia Galas und Steffi Sembdner
Sound: Andrea Steves

Two people in the middle of life. They share the smallest possible common space: a pair of pants in which their individual and joint creative possibilities are negotiated. The pants become a changeable additional body space, serving as a link between the inner experience of the dancers and the outer perception and positioning in their respective life roles. How is the balancing act between their own and other people's needs to be achieved?

With their peculiar and humorous way of combining movement and language, J.U.S.T. takes their audience on a journey into the profoundly banal, the everyday exaggerated, the grotesque, the distorted and yet so intimately human.






Mark

Projects, Current / Recent

Artist Books & Edited Volumes

Collaborations:
FICTILIS (2010-present)

as Artist Project Group (Bernhard Garnicnig, Lukas Heistinger, Andrea Steves, 2020-present)

as Museum of Capitalism (2014-present)
Agnes: unfolding strategies of resistance and joy

anti-nuclear & environmental work
Articles and Podcasts
sound work
some press and interviews:
  1. ︎︎︎100 Works of Art that Defined the Decade (Artnet)
  2. ︎︎︎Building A Museum of Capitalism (NYT)
  3. ︎︎︎What Would A Museum of Capitalism Look Like? (New Yorker)
  4. ︎︎︎Così l’arte contemporanea mette in scena la crisi (Irene Opezzo, La Stampa)
  5. ︎︎︎This New Museum Imagines a World Where Capitalism Is Dead (Sarah Burke for Artsy)
  6. ︎︎︎A Time-Twisting Visit to the Museum of Capitalism (Atlas Obscura)
  7. ︎︎︎Which Stories Belong In Public? Monument Lab ReGen Advisory Roundtable
  8. ︎︎︎A View From the Edge of the Earth (interview for The Chart)

in the words of others