Scalable Skeletal Escalator (open rehearsal)

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Scalable Skeletal Escalator occupies three levels of Kunsthalle Zürich and different atmospheres can be encountered on each. The work’s visual, aural and smell elements can be experienced in a manner customary to the context of art exhibitions, though visitors will also meet dancers that respond to the circumstances and the population of the spaces. The dancers invite visitors to engage with an alternative circulation across the Löwenbräukunst building, leading them through a number of scenes. Rather than carrying out a fixed choreography, dancers will adapt a number of scenarios as they respond to the emergent situation. They are active agents that adapt a series of gestures and dances, they work with cues, switch roles and offer a variety of forms of encounter with the public. Meanwhile, algorithmic sound compositions occupy the spaces on an aural level; this music appears and disappears, evolving over time. Like a weather system, it affects all around it, but does not determine actions.

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Scalable Skeletal Escalator at Kunsthalle Zürich, conceived by Isabel Lewis is made possible through collaborative efforts by artists operating in multiple fields. Dirk Bell and Mo Stern created a custom-made speaker system, Lara Dâmaso, The Field (a cooperation with Tanzhaus Zürich), Rafał Pierzyński and Mathias Ringgenberg are the dancers inhabiting the spaces. The music that weaves through the building is by LABOUR and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy created the paintings on canvas. Smells produced by artist and researcher Sissel Tolaas are most evident in the basement of Löwenbräukunst, while the dancers’ costumes are from Marcelo Alcaide and Yolanda Zobel. The work is created with the support of Callie's Berlin and Tanzhaus Zürich. various photo credits in File Names. / Fotos mix Open Rehearsal (by Anna Wirz) and Performances (By Annik Wetter, Andrea Ebener)