WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SEE – ON BEING WATCHED

In the organizer's words:

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SEE?- ON BEING WATCHED
a performance project by Lena Grossmann

Part 1: WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SEE?
One-to-one encounters between audience and performers.

Dates: 19.4 / 20.4. / 21.4.2025

Registration and tickets:

https://calendly.com/schreibluzi/what-do-you-need-to-see?month=2025-04

(Binding registration required in advance)

Bookable timeslots of half an hour each between 12:00 and 20:15.

Location: KNUST KUNZ GALLERY, Ludwigstrasse 7, Munich

The performance project WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SEE? - ON BEING WATCHED consists of two parts that are separated in time and will be performed by two performers in a specially developed spatial setting. In the first part, WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SEE?, the audience meets the performers in one-to-one encounters. The second part - ON BEING WATCHED - results from the movement material generated in part one for a larger audience.

How do I look at another body? How do I evaluate what I see? As a spectator, what do I expect from a performance? What do I take for granted? What are my personal criteria? What do I not want to see? What do I like to identify with?

The performance thematizes the moment of the viewing body, the spectator. Expectations, viewing habits, insecurities and the resulting power structures between performers and viewers are at the center of the work. These physical modes of action are particularly relevant in our inter-bodily interaction. The "consumer behavior of the gaze" observed here is questioned, and the potential and personal responsibility associated with one's own gaze is made tangible.

Further information:

https://www.sabineknust.com/exhibitions/what-do-you-need-to-see-on-being-watched-ein-performanceprojekt-von-lena-grossmann

Artistic direction, choreography, space, objects: Lena Grossmann
Performers, co-creation: Quindell Orton, Cary Shiu
Outside Eye: Luzi Gross
Costume: Annabell Lachner
Production: Robin Ullrich
PR: Claudia Illi
Photo: Linus Schuierer

Part 2: - ON BEING WATCHED
Performance, developed on the basis of WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SEE?
Dates: May 31 / June 1, 2025
(times will be published shortly)

Price information:

14€ regular, 8€ reduced