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Plastic City Wrap Me Up

MUSIC THEATRE: PLASTIC CITY, WRAP ME UP, 50min.
Four mucisians and an artist performe a music/live-cinema performance about daily life, planed or improvised.

Een stad opgebouwd uit plastic afvalmateriaal, is dat een beeld uit de toekomst? Een stad als zijnde, letterlijk, het verpakkingsmateriaal voor de mensen die het herbergt. In Plastic City, wrap me up is Station Dieptepunt Centraal een in zichzelf vastdraaiend dump, ruil en vermaakpunt voor en met kunststoffen. Op maandagochtend om half acht staren drie medewerkers enigszins wezenloos voor zich uit in hun Porta-Dispatched-from-Tras​h-Cabin.

Tim Coehoorn – gitar & loops
Olaf Hollmann – tenor & baritone saxofoon
Antoine Duykers – drums & percussion
Krista Burger – visual artist & live cinema
Quinten Dierick – electronics & visual artist

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The magical massage bar for public officers

A site specific experimental noise opera by Slowakian composer Utvil Kling Sang, 2013.

Commisioned by K.A.I.R., Košice and Motel Spatie, Arnhem.
Directing, dramaturgy: Marek Kundlák, Útvil Kling Sang.
Musicians: Edita Karkoschka, Tim Coehoorn, Hans Arnold, Harmjan Roeles, Kováts Gergő, Marek Kundlák, Útvil Kling Sang.
Visuals and Live-video: Heimprofi
Object and masks: Hybrid Packaging

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Prinz Sternschnuppe

Premiere Prinz Sternschnuppe written by novelist Lisa Sommerfeldt and directed by Miriam Michel.
Stage design, costume and overhead-projections by Krista Burger.

Miriam Michel und Bühnenbildnerin Krista Burger setzen die Handlung als ein Abenteuer über die Entstehung von Bildern um. Denn das Publikum erhält keine fertigen visuellen Interpretationen vorgesetzt. Die Bühne ist völlig offen, die drei Darsteller verwandeln sich mit minimalen Handgriffen in ihre jeweiligen Rollen. Puppen und Overhead-Projektionen von Zeichnungen entführen vom Schloss ins Weltall und zur Guten Fee an den See. Westfalenpost

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Tschick opera

Road Opera by composer Ludger Vollmer, 2017.
Libretto written by Tina Hartmann after the Novel of Wolfgang Herrndorf.

Musical direction Florian Ludwig
Director Roman Hovenbitzer
Stage design and costume Jan Bammes
Graphics and Video Krista Burger

„Tschick“ als temporeiche Roadopera uraufgeführt

„Tschick“ als temporeiche Roadopera uraufgeführt

HAGEN Da sage noch einer, die Oper sei eine zeitraubende Darstellungsform. Mit der Adaption des Jugendromans “Tschick” beweist das Theater Hagen das genaue Gegenteil. Am Samstag war die Uraufführung des Auftragswerks.

Visuelle Illusionen
Für Regisseur Roman Hovenbitzer stellte sich das Problem, die Handlung eines Roadmovies – die Protagonisten kurven mit einem gestohlenen Lada durch Ostdeutschland – auf eine kleine Bühne mit beschränkten Möglichkeiten zu bringen. Seine Lösung ist mehr als überzeugend: Die niederländische Grafik- und Video-Künstlerin Krista Burger übernimmt einen Großteil der visuellen Illusionen.

Mit viel Witz, Einfallsreichtum und oft einfachen Mitteln zaubert sie wirkungsvolle Kulissen bis hin zur Braunkohlengrube. Den realen Teil der Bühne sowie die treffenden Kostüme besorgt Ausstatter Jan Bammes. Am Pult des quicklebendig aufspielenden Orchesters: Generalmusikdirektor Florian Ludwig.

Karsten Mark: Freier Mitarbeiter Kulturredaktion. Ruhrnachrichten

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Verantwoord Vet

Free-improv Live-Cinema: Verantwoord Vet is drawing a surreal and nightmarish vision of our overly consuming society. Waste material and found objects are used to produce an improvised movie accompanied by improvised soundscapes, giving the performance an apocalyptic edge.

Krista Burger – Live-Video
Christoph Scherbaum – git / electronics  Tim Coehoorn – git / electronics Duration – 20-50 min

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Radioplay for Extrapool

Income small. Prospects none. Spirit: unbroken, 2009.
Assignment by Extrapool, Nijmegen.

This radio play was a collaboration with composer J. Diehl and Powerplant’s N. Thibo. Based on one of the four Hierarchies stories for the book ‘Exquisite Gunpowder City 16 Shot’ by N. Thibo. During the performance the audience were placed in a square and sat in the dark. They could listen to the radio play and read a corresponding text projection, while live sounds were made behind them to accompany the soundtrack of the radio play.

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Powerplant Live-video performance

Together with N.Thibo I was part of the performance duo Powerplant. Powerplant made theatrical live-cinema performances between 2001 and 2011 and performed in various places in Holland an abroad like the van Abbe museum, Paradiso, Revolver Gallery, Duesseldorf and various art festivals like the Gogbot Festival in Enschede.

Live-cinema installations by Powerplant 
* In der Bar um die Ecke, 2002 (3 sets, 24min, 1 Channelprojection, sound)
* Fortune Cookie Fleas ,2002 (5 sets, 23min, 1 Channelprojection, sound)
* Welcome to the Heat, 2004 (12 sets, 44min, 2 Channelprojection, sound)
* Heroes no Coffee, 2004 (Installation)
* The Future is comming at you with 60min a hour, 2005 (Installation)
* Fortune Cookie Fleas II, 2006 (7 sets, 33min, 2 Channelprojection, sound)
* Mental Mickey, 2007 (1 set, 11min, performance, 1 Channelprojection, sound)
* The Dessert of Doom, 2007 (5 sets, 31min, 2 Channelprojection, sound)
* In der Bar um die Ecke II, 2007/2008 (7 sets, 34min, 2 Channelprojection, sound,)
* OUTLET LAND, 2009-2011 (11 sets, 49min, 2 Channelprojection, sound)

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Koschka & Heimprofi

Herfsttooi Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (NL)

“Bestattung Heimmkehr”
is a musictheater performance from Koschka&Heimprofi about Heimat and Travelling. Homesickness, nostalgia and travelling to the unknown, loss of home, exile and melancholia drenched in a strong will and hope are the driving force of this musical theater piece. These themes deeply present in Koschka´s songs are used by Heimprofi in the LIVE-Video projections.

The bounding element in this collaboration is a book as in; diaries, photo albums, agenda´s, journals etc…. Protagonists: a small plastic house, a sparkler, aluminium foil, ink, plants and a book in which she draws and places cut-out images as associations to the songs. By leafing through the book the audience is taken on a visual journey that connects to Koschka´s stories. Every song is enveloped or supported by a small visual universe that comes into existence during the song and collides again. This growing and colliding transports the feeling of movement, not being able to hold on: people observe – images of death – symbols of gathering – abandonment. These loose elements have a dramaturgical line which communicate together an abstract story of it´s own.

Since 2012 “Koschka und Heimprofi” made several musictheatreperformances wich they performed in Germany, Holland, France and Austria.

performances (selection)
24-09-16 Code Rood, Arnhem (NL)
20-08-15 Museum Insel Hombroich, Hombroich (DE)
05-08-15 Old School, Havelberg (DE)
08-11-14 Biennale Gelderland, Nijmegen (NL)
19-12-13 The Magical Massage Bar for Public Officers, Arnhem (NL)
15-09-13 Herfsttooi Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (NL)
25-04-13 Extrapool, Nijmegen (NL)

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Lit Du Parade

Performance “Lit Du Parade” 
Throughout our lifetime we come to collect a good bunch of objects. Some of theme are there because they are part of our life story and others are just stuff filling up our surroundings. When a person dies the only physical thing that is left behind are the objects he or she used to identify with. These objects can become like relics or it could happen that all those belongings are of no interest to anyone any more, But one way or the other, these objects can help reconstructing the live a person had by collecting the memories and stories attached to them.

In de performance “Lit du Parade” onderzoekt K. Burger de relatie tussen objecten en de herinneringen die eraan verbonden zijn. De performance lijkt voort toe vloeien uit een concrete handeling; het leeghalen van het huis van de overleden M. Koudenburg en het proces wat Burger moest doorlopen om deze opgave te volbrengen. E. Karkoschka ondersteunde deze performance met geluid en gezang.

Dit project vond plaats in het kader van Fill the Room een project van Derde Wall onderleiding van M. Farabegoli.