Julian Weber
sight seeing
The question returns: What impact do the new technologies have on shaping contemporary television? Who are today’s viewers – passive consumers or themselves TV material ready for consumption? Is the digital real? In his new work sight seeing, the performance and visual artist Julian Weber will transport the audience from the white sheet of paper on to the stage. The participants in the performance are the subjects and objects that move in the staged framework, between the margins, trying to define themselves. In the choreographed set, a number of different characters have been immersed, somewhere between a flat surface and the third dimension – searching for temporary attractions and their own origin of existence. ‘The fear of invisibility in our digitized world becomes a driving force for physical and choreographic questions. Over the course of this debate, sight seeing is confronted with what constitutes a human being and what represents the inhuman’, Julian Weber stated for PTV. Please join in the sight seeing!
Julian Weber is a choreographer/dancer and visual artist. He studied at HBK Brunswick, Academy of Arts Vienna, HZT Berlin and the Theaterschool in Amsterdam. He reflects and deconstructs pictorial strategies in cross-format works, in which he examines the areas of friction between images, bodies and materials for their choreographic potential. The often amorphous and mobile stage situations refer to the formation of cultural identity and institutional bondage alike. He collaborates with artists such as Meg Stuart, Boris Charmatz and Tino Sehgal and creates his own work at the intersection of visual and performance art. Lately he also develops more frequently scenographies in collaboration with artists such as Jeremy Wade or the suddenly-collective. In 2015 he won the Berlin Art Prize with his work the toruist.
