Projects

A Space Without A Use, durational and participatory intervention, Kunsttreffpunkt, Stadtkirchplatz, Darmstadt, D. 12-5pm, 28-31 August 2023. Video Hans-Peter Wollmann.

Basement Dances (Kappenberg 2022), Video Interview with Austrian Jewish Choreographer Hilde Holger, part of Tender Grip at Electro Studios, St Leonards-on-Sea November 2022.

On The Edge (Claudia Kappenberg & Hermione Allsopp, 2022) Promenade Performance in Hastings Town Centre, Castle St – Robertson Street – Harold Place Underpass – Seafront, Sunday 12 June 2022, 2-5pm. Performed by Yumino Seki, Andrew Barker, Andrew Downs, Claudia Kappenberg. A commission by Home Live Art for the Knotty Festival

grounded, A Season of Screendance. 28 July - 9 August 2020. Hosted by Coastal Currents, Hastings, curated by Fiontán Moran, Tate Modern, and Claudia Kappenberg, University of Brighton.

Shore Variations (Video, 2018, 27:32 min) Trailer 2min. A collaboration with Julieanna Preston, NZ. More info on Shore Variations

 

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Still in Vienna I visit the bridge where the gran of @nestbex has a poem embossed into the railing. On this spot Ilse Aichinger had to witness members of her family being taken away in an open truck, to be murdered, before she was sent to England on
Es fing alles ganz rosa an heute, und dann wurde es immer bunter. / It looked like a pink day, and then it became a lot more colourful. Hundertwasser's motto for his architecture was Tree Service, that our houses should serve trees. Shouldn't we put
Everything is big and baroque in Vienna ( unless its art deco) and naked women are doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Am on the trails of Austrian Jewish choreorapher Hilde Holger, visiting the academy where she studied dance, the Palast Ratibor where
Here is what is happening in my institution, a major threat of redundancies as part of a means to save their finances and shift teaching to focus on outcomes and skills-based education.... a major attack on what the University is about and on its stu
 



Claudia Kappenberg is a performance and media artist, Honorary Fellow at the University of Brighton and director of the Centre for Screendance. Originally a dancer she continues to work with movement and space and with the gestures and rhythms of the everyday. Her projects consist of minimal choreographies which examine systems and parameters in the form of live interventions or films, to interrogate that which makes us human.




Talks and events:

A Space Without A use, live durational intervention, Kunsttreffpunkt Darmstadt, Germany, Aug 2023.

Screendancing Histories and Acts of Memory, curated events and part of Brighton Screendance Festival, with South East Dance and Cinecity Brighton, 18/11/2022, and as part of (Dis)playing Memory, Venice Oct 2023

On The Edge (Claudia Kappenberg & Hermione Allsopp, 2022) Promenade Performance in Hastings Town Centre, 12 June 2022, 2-5pm. A commission by Home Live Art for the Knotty Festival

In the face of war, a historiographic turn in Screendance, paper given at International Symposium of Screendance, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US. April 10 - 13 2022.

grounded, A Season of Screendance. 28 July - 9 August 2020. Hosted by Coastal Currents, Hastings, curated by Claudia Kappenberg and Fiontán Moran.






Selected publications:

Kappenberg, C. (2023) The Disturbance of one System by Another, in Rethinking Roland Barthes Though Performance, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 135-154.

Kappenberg, C. & Moran, F. (2021) Reflecting on grounded: A lens on Covid Through Screendance. The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ). 9, 2, p. 188-194.

Kappenberg, C. (2022) Dancing is the best revenge. Catalogue essay on the work of Melanie Manchot. In Dance First Think Later - Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels, les presses du réel, Geveva CH.

Interview with Claudia Kappenberg, in Mendonça, M. (2021) Make/ Manifest, A Life in Art and Craft, 91-106.

As Covid has brought screened dance and screendance into close proximity, four screendance curators look at the dynamics between them, by Emily May, Springback Magazine 21 Jan 2021.

Kappenberg, C. (2018) The Use of Uselessness. In: E. Meehan and Hetty Blades ed., Performing Practice, Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice. London: Intellect, 251-271.

Kappenberg, C. (2017) Arrows Fly. In: C. Patracchini ed., Zeno’s Paradoxes, London: Zeno Press, 43 - 46.

Kappenberg, C. (2017) Incognito. In: M. Hayes ed., Dancing Museums. Repères, Cahier de danse. Val-de-Marne: la Briqueterie (FR), 13- 15.

Kappenberg, C. (2016) Too Much Self. In: S. Jamet, Fred Dalmasso and Véronique Dalmasso, Syncope in Visual and Performing Arts, Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit. (See Amazon)

Kappenberg, C. (2016) An Interdisciplinary Reading of Entr’Acte. In: D. Rosenberg ed., The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 187-204.

Kappenberg, C and Sarah Whatley ed., On: All This Can Happen, The International Journal of Screendance. Vol 7 (Autumn 2016)



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