KlangKunstBühne spezial 2023 - Video as Agent

Chris Kondek

Video and theater artist, New York/Berlin


In this workshop we will experiment with incorporating video into performance. The goal is to develop strategies for thinking creatively about how video can be used as an actor or agent on stage that produces an effect as opposed to a passive screen that just shows something. In the workshop we will analyze scenes/texts looking for video ideas and then we will produce them. We will take Brecht’s radioplay “Ozeanflug” as a basic text to work with, but participants are encouraged to bring in other texts with which to experiment.

The course is aimed at artists of all genres.

languages English and German

assistent: Adrian Terzic

Sign up for this workshop HERE.

Chris Kondek, has been working at the border between media and performance for over 25 years. In the early 90’s in New York he developed video designs for the Wooster Group where he was an associate member. In the 2000 he relocated to Berlin where he continued his video work in theater, working with Meg Stuart, Stefan Pucher, Sebastian Baumgarten, and Falk Richter in theaters throughout Europe. Starting in 2004 his own theater company “doublelucky” has developed numerous stage works incorporating real time information, from live stock trading to live cell phone hacking.