SUBTEXT is the first part of a new performance series by artist and composer Colin Self, produced specifically for the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION. The first part will be premiered at JSC Berlin on 31 May and 01 June. The audience will be guided through multiple spaces of the collection in low light. Weaving together text, song, and movement, SUBTEXT moves through the space as a sequence of ambulatory exercises, or “bets”. SUBTEXT is based on the Siblings Compendium, a collection of writings and quotes that inspired Self’s recently released album, the tuturistic opera Siblings (2018). On Siblings, ecstatic voices, techno, pop, folk, and sound merge to form new ideals of kinship and to explore the role that non-biological families have played in his life. The Siblings Compendium is a collective research document inspired by writers and thinkers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Donna Haraway, Every Ocean Hughes, Fred Moten, and José Esteban Muñoz, among others, acting as a binding agent between Self’s various solo and collaborative artistic experiments. In SUBTEXT, Self presents an imaginary stage beneath the opera of Siblings, having agents perform and recount the research in simultaneity, through recitation, song, and games. After having performed Siblings at the MoMA P.S.1 in New York City in 2018, Self is presenting his new project SUBTEXT for the first time at the JSC.
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Colin Self, Siblings (Elation VI), 2018, Live-Performance MoMA PS1, New York.
SUBTEXT is part of horizontal vertigo, a year-long program at the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION in Düsseldorf and Berlin, curated by Lisa Long.
Additional information
INFORMATION FOR THE VISITORS
Please note that the performance will take place in a very low light. The audience will be guided through multiple spaces by the performers. Audience members are asked not to use the flashlight function on their phones unless instructed to do so by the performers.
Attendance is limited to 80 guests per performance.
Tickets: 10 EUR / 7 EUR Tickets are available at the front desk at JSC Berlin during opening hours: Saturday/Sunday, 12–6 p.m. Remaining tickets will be available at the front desk on the evening of the performance.
Please note that the performance will take place in a very low light. The audience will be guided through multiple spaces by the performers. Audience members are asked not to use the flashlight function on their phones unless instructed to do so by the performers.
Attendance is limited to 80 guests per performance.
Tickets: 10 EUR / 7 EUR Tickets are available at the front desk at JSC Berlin during opening hours: Saturday/Sunday, 12–6 p.m. Remaining tickets will be available at the front desk on the evening of the performance.
Accessibility
We apologize, but the performance space is not wheelchair accessible. Please contact JSC Berlin directly to make arrangements.
