Künstlerhaus
Halle für
Kunst & Medien

Burgring 2
8010 Graz, Austria
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Limited edition, signed by the artist: 34 + 5 exemplars
Edition text: Esperanza Rosales

Direction, camera, cut: Roland Rauschmeier
2011, 7:32 min., FullHD, PAL, stereo
Performer: Eun Kyung Lee, Pasi Mäkelä, Anne Juren, Alix Eynaudi,
David Subal, Ruth Ranacher, Martin Schwab

A production on the occasion of the performance “Tableaux Vivants” of the Wiener Tanz- und Kunstbewegung


Edition Medienturm, release 27 / Summer 13

Roland Rauschmeier

baumaxx inspired by bauhaus

Roland Rauschmeier’s "baumaxx inspired by bauhaus" (2011) transfers Oskar Schlemmer’s “Triadisches Ballett” from the year 1922 into the present day, into a store belonging to a large do-it-yourself chain. Taking up the rudiments of ballet—the backdrop, the music, and Schlemmer’s costumes—along with an exploration of the relations between people, production, and tools, the piece "baumaxx inspired by bauhaus" presents keyed up, expressive dance interludes playing out in the DIY store, with the dancers wearing readymade costumes from the store’s stocked shelves. The issue of the artwork in the age of technological reproducibility, which is essential in the eyes of the German avant-gardist, experiences colourful scrutinisation through the prevalent creative imperatives of a leisure and surplus society of wild bearing.

Künstlerhaus
Halle für Kunst & Medien

Burgring 2
8010 Graz, Austria
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