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33 SKETCHES

Realisation: since 2008, performed at CoFestival in 2021.

Concept and performance: WILHELM GROENER – Günther Wilhelm & Mariola Groener
Production: WILHELM GROENE in coproduction with Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija and Mime-Centrum Berlin/ITI

Organisation: Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija and Kino Šiška
Supported by: Creative Europe (EU) as part of the Life Long Burning project and the Creative Crossroad program line, the City of Ljubljana, and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

www.wilhelmgroener.net
In 2001, visual artist Mariola Groener and dancer Günther Wilhelm joined forces to form the artistic duo WILHELM GROENER, which is characterized by interdisciplinary exploration and has created a diverse opus of performances and choreography comprising stage productions, site-specific artworks, lectures, and exhibitions. In their practice, Mariola and Günther are primarily interested in the structural difference that characterizes movement, and the interplay between the visible and the invisible, between the known and the unknown, that is, between established knowledge and potentially new knowledge and insight.

The play on meanings, which they frequently address in their productions, is revealed in shifts and altered emphases in understanding and thus in naming; it is precise, thoughtful, and always compelling, as it uses simple means to open up, strings together, layers, and connects the dialectical relationships that fundamentally shape our society. Together, they have created more than 25 performances, numerous installments of the long-term project 33 Sketches, video works, and art publications.

In the process-oriented performance project *33 Sketches*, the artistic duo WILHELM GROENER places spatial and contextual situations at the center and as a starting point, linking them to their current research focus. This project, focused primarily on the exploration of materiality, creates—through layering and multiplication—an archive of the duo’s thematic and problematic emphases, opening up potential new connections and links between visual and performing arts, between two-dimensional documents and the three-dimensionality of space, between the staged and the documented, between presence and representation.

The co-festival performance took place at the Mediatheque of the Mime Center, an international theater institute in Berlin, and focused on their long-standing exploration of the staging of archives. This research is dedicated to archival work, the processes and methodologies of archiving, rhythms, connotations, expansions, and (re)organization. Through staging processes, they open up possible answers to the question: what can a staged archive be, and what does it represent? How and what can be archived when staged? Can the body be understood as an archive? Can an artistic opus be a transformative machine that unfolds new aspects of the performative?

www.wilhelmgroener.net