hello!earth-news: The Planet

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There we are, alive and our flip flops ready to go!

Right now in the middle of a 3 month of working time in Brazil and are making work in Sao Paulo at SESC- Mostra des Artes, Recife- Festival Internacional de dansa do Recife and the Panoramafestival Rio de Janeiro.

Many things happened since we sent out our last newsletter and nothing is the same. Or maybe everything is.

For example did we change name. You will not hear from UDflugt network any longer when we do work, but hello!earth. This is the company name for works initiated by Vera and Jacob , who formerly produced their things as part of UDflugt- network. Our new website is: www.helloearth.cc and is in the air and will soon be flying smoothly. UDspring continues as a platform for work for kids.

Other than that, we are still busy with investigating cities from above aside below between and have still strange animals involved in our performances.

We continue to make work based on the concept “ The Invisible Reality Show*” and are still busy with exploring relation, perception and how we make up reality. A journey, that leads us deeper and deeper into a vast sea of possibilities, wondrous things and questions, as we travel on and share this journey with artists and audience in different countries and contexts.

Right now here in Brazil, we moved from Sao Paulo’s moonlike skyscraper landscape further on to Recifes sound of waves and heat. Live is lively as it is, and stepping the sand of a white beach I think of the earth turning right at this moment and the immense diversity of life happening on this planet right, right now.

A girl passes by on the beach. Talking with headset loudly so I can hear both her and the person’s voice she is talking to. His voice its deep and comes from somewhere, I do not know where that is.

The sky is everywhere and dance happens now.

And what you just read is past already, and life has moved ahead …as well as we did. After 2 month with great experiences, work, performances and exchange in Recife and Sao Paulo we arrived now in Rio de Janeiro, the third station for our work in Brazil this year. Panoramafestival just opened and we are preparing for premiere the coming week….

Here we are moving in between economic giants and buildings around the business center of Rio and fallen houses of colonial times just few corners away. In between people walking, people running , people sleeping on the asphalt, under trees, people surviving working, waiting, eating, piing , surviving, just as you and me, and yes! we love it.

If you want to see us mediated - even though we are quite shy and do find it difficult to move within media business- we appear randomly in Brazilian TV and newspapers these days…. As we became part of some of the bigger fish cultural events of the country.

Check www.helloearthbrazil.blogspot.com for fotos and audience feedback of our performances in Brazil- (in portugese though).

If you never heard about us or The Invisible Reality Show before

Short about the concept :

“ The Invisible Reality Show*” is a concept for creating site-specific performances, that focus on the experience of the audience and provide them with multiple frames to perceive their surroundings, situations and themselves from mixed stand points, altering angels and with new sensitivity.

Audience is sent individually on a prepared path through city or nature. With stimulations from sound, text, images and meetings with performers, a non-fictional play within reality starts to challenge surprise, mirrors each one’s perception and view on the world.

The remodeled fabric of perception leads to the open question of how reality is created and what reality is? And the embodied experience of the audience becomes the performance.

The concept showed to be hybrid in various ways. People from the different artistic fields such as dance, theater, visual art and sound found this work relevant for their working field as well as urban planers, sociologist, psychologists, anthropologists, architects, journalists and media people.

Latest performances based on the concept by hello!earth Vera Maeder and Jacob Langaa Sennek at Panoramafestival Rio de Janeiro and Metropolis Biennale Copenhagen 2007.

*) The Invisible Reality Show is a concept by Vera Maeder, developed during a research in 2005 in collaboration with Eero Tapio Vuori, Mette Aakjær, JacobLangaa Sennek, Daniel Norback and Saskia Habermann

Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Planet

A interactive installation and role-play project in different schools started in December 2007 in Copenhagen. Pursueing the question of what is happiness, and what do we need to be happy? We created a planet in two-three weeks time. An utopia. A reality that we inhabit together with the kids or youngsters for 3 days or longer.

The project was done at HGO School Copenhagen, Fri Skole Rørvig and Albertslund Lille Skole will follow in beginning of 2009.

artists involved: Hanne Pedersen, Vera Maeder and Stine Worm /Sigrid Bennike

The project is supported by the Danish Arts Council´s " Huskunsterordning"