GHOST 4 – Festival of Butoh, Sound and Vision
May 31 - June 23, 2024
Exhibition
With Willem Boel, Claudia Mann and Wolfgang Schäfer
June 1 - 23, 2024
Opening hours Thu - Sun 2 - 6 pm
Free admission.
Performances
May 31, 2024, 8 p.m.
Performance Parcours I
With Yukio Suzuki, Seiji Tanaka, seren.a, Tom Blankenberg
Performance Seiji Tanaka & Tom Blankenberg
Performance Yukio Suzuki & seren.a
Ausverkauft!
June 7, 2024, 8 p.m.
Performance Parcours II
With Moeno Wakamatsu, Yuko Kaseki, Tom Förderer, gamut inc
Performance Moeno Wakamatsu & Tom Förderer
Performance Yuko Kaseki & gamut inc
Ausverkauft!
Butoh Workshops
June 1, 2024, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
With Yukio Suzuki
June 2, 2024, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
With Seiji Tanaka
8. Juni 2024, 11 – 18 Uhr
With Moeno Wakamatsu
9. Juni 2024, 11 – 17 Uhr
With Yuko Kaseki
Butoh is more than an artistic performance, more than theater. Butoh is intended to develop an energetic dynamic that touches people at their core.
In Ghost 4, dancers and sound artists engage in an encounter in artistically and historically predetermined spaces of the Weltkunstzimmer, in installations created especially for this period.
Each medium initially follows its own material conditions and laws, just as the artists follow their own inspirations. The result is a space that attempts to lend an overarching vision to the existence of our temporary existence on this earth and in this life. The permanent becoming and passing away is given a dimension in the now that transcends time. Butoh is a collection of magical moments. Where does the movement, the sound, the vision begin and end?
The Ghost 4 Butoh Soundart Festival seeks the synergy of dance, sound, image and installation in order to trace the primordial human question of the meaning of life and transience in the mutually potentiating expression of these art forms.
The Belgian artist Willem Boel and the Düsseldorf sculptor Claudia Mann have been invited by the artist and director of the Weltkunstzimmer, Wolfgang Schäfer, to create walk-in settings between painting, sculpture and installation. As an exhibition, the works are witnesses to performative events, they embody the energy of movement and are simultaneously contemplative manifestations.
On two evenings, the spatial installations will become settings for the performance parcours of two dancers and two sound artists. Dancers Seiji Tanaka and Yukio Suzuki will travel from Japan to perform with Düsseldorf sound artists Tom Blankenberg (piano and live electronics) and seren.a (live electronics) on May 31. On June 7, the dancers Yuko Kaseki from Berlin and Moeno Wakamatsu from Normandy will meet the machine orchestra of gamut inc from Berlin and the live electronics of Cologne sound artist Tom Förderer.
The multifaceted location of the former bakery will be transformed into an experience space for the duration of the festival. The audience is invited to get involved and exchange ideas, inspired by the unique, exclusive and fantastic experiences. The Butoh dancers will also give insights into their own understanding of dance in one-day workshops, offering us an opportunity to incorporate this extraordinary approach into our own lives.
Wolfgang Schäfer, Kazuo Ohno, L'Argentina 2, 2002, Wolfgang Schäfer, Dark Rose, 1997, Wolfgang Schäfer, Ghost and Geisha, 1997. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Wolfgang Schäfer, Welke Tulpen - Gewesen, 2020, Wolfgang Schäfer, Kessel Buntes, 2023, Wolfgang Schäfer, Kazuo Ohno, L'Argentina 1, 2002. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #22, 2020, Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #25, 2020. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #22, 2020. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #24, 2020, Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #25, 2020, Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #16, 2018. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #25, 2020, Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #16, 2018, Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #21, 2019. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #16, 2018, Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #21, 2019. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #21, 2019. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #25, 2020, Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #22, 2020, Willem Boel, De Nieuwe Molens #24, 2020. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Willem Boel, Split Paintings #24, 2024, Willem Boel, Pare Feu #75, 2023, Willem Boel, A well balanced painting #06, 2023. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Willem Boel, Pare Feu #68, 2022, Willem Boel, Split Paintings #29, 2024. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Wolfgang Schäfer, Natural Growth on a Dancefloor, 2024, Wolfgang Schäfer, Secrets 2, 2020, Wolfgang Schäfer, Das Innere Feuer, 2023, Wolfgang Schäfer, Secrets 1, 2020. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Wolfgang Schäfer, Roots, 2024. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Wolfgang Schäfer, Ritual Roots, 2021. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Wolfgang Schäfer, Ritual Roots, 2021. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Claudia Mann, Worringer Platz 1-8, 2019, Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Claudia Mann, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Claudia Mann, Worringer Platz, Detail, 2019, Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Claudia Mann, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Claudia Mann, Die Erde ist eine Scheibe #2, 2019-2024, Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Claudia Mann, Aufrichtige Hand (Resting Useful Tools. Believe Me. Really. I'm Not Kidding You.), 2021, Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Claudia Mann, Ground doesn't exist (Worringer), 2019-2020, Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Claudia Mann, Ground doesn't exist (Worringer), 2019-2020, Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Claudia Mann, Janus, 2015-2019, Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Claudia Mann, Die Erde ist eine Scheibe #2, 2019-2024, Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Claudia Mann, Die Erde ist eine Scheibe #2, 2019-2024, Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Claudia Mann, Janus, 2015-2019, Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Claudia Mann, Worringer Platz, Detail, 2019, Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Claudia Mann, Erotischer Versuch zwischen Boden und Wand (Drücke deine vordere und deine rückwärtige Oberfläche gegeneinander), 2021, Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Willem Boel, Pare Feu #54, 2021. Ausstellungsansicht © Johannes Bendzulla
Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf and the Kunst- und Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf.
With the kind support of SIGMA and The Japan Foundation.
Under the patronage of the Japanese Consulate General Düsseldorf
GHOST 4 – Festival of Butoh, Sound and Vision
May 31 - June 23, 2024
Exhibition
With Willem Boel, Claudia Mann and Wolfgang Schäfer
June 1 - 23, 2024
Opening hours Thu - Sun 2 - 6 pm
Free admission.
Performances
May 31, 2024, 8 p.m.
Performance Parcours I
With Yukio Suzuki, Seiji Tanaka, seren.a, Tom Blankenberg
Performance Seiji Tanaka & Tom Blankenberg
Performance Yukio Suzuki & seren.a
Ausverkauft!
June 7, 2024, 8 p.m.
Performance Parcours II
With Moeno Wakamatsu, Yuko Kaseki, Tom Förderer, gamut inc
Performance Moeno Wakamatsu & Tom Förderer
Performance Yuko Kaseki & gamut inc
Ausverkauft!
Butoh Workshops
June 1, 2024, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
With Yukio Suzuki
June 2, 2024, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
With Seiji Tanaka
8. Juni 2024, 11 – 18 Uhr
With Moeno Wakamatsu
9. Juni 2024, 11 – 17 Uhr
With Yuko Kaseki
Butoh is more than an artistic performance, more than theater. Butoh is intended to develop an energetic dynamic that touches people at their core.
In Ghost 4, dancers and sound artists engage in an encounter in artistically and historically predetermined spaces of the Weltkunstzimmer, in installations created especially for this period.
Each medium initially follows its own material conditions and laws, just as the artists follow their own inspirations. The result is a space that attempts to lend an overarching vision to the existence of our temporary existence on this earth and in this life. The permanent becoming and passing away is given a dimension in the now that transcends time. Butoh is a collection of magical moments. Where does the movement, the sound, the vision begin and end?
The Ghost 4 Butoh Soundart Festival seeks the synergy of dance, sound, image and installation in order to trace the primordial human question of the meaning of life and transience in the mutually potentiating expression of these art forms.
The Belgian artist Willem Boel and the Düsseldorf sculptor Claudia Mann have been invited by the artist and director of the Weltkunstzimmer, Wolfgang Schäfer, to create walk-in settings between painting, sculpture and installation. As an exhibition, the works are witnesses to performative events, they embody the energy of movement and are simultaneously contemplative manifestations.
On two evenings, the spatial installations will become settings for the performance parcours of two dancers and two sound artists. Dancers Seiji Tanaka and Yukio Suzuki will travel from Japan to perform with Düsseldorf sound artists Tom Blankenberg (piano and live electronics) and seren.a (live electronics) on May 31. On June 7, the dancers Yuko Kaseki from Berlin and Moeno Wakamatsu from Normandy will meet the machine orchestra of gamut inc from Berlin and the live electronics of Cologne sound artist Tom Förderer.
The multifaceted location of the former bakery will be transformed into an experience space for the duration of the festival. The audience is invited to get involved and exchange ideas, inspired by the unique, exclusive and fantastic experiences. The Butoh dancers will also give insights into their own understanding of dance in one-day workshops, offering us an opportunity to incorporate this extraordinary approach into our own lives.
Ausstellungsansicht, Wolfgang Schäfer © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Wolfgang Schäfer © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Willem Boel © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Willem Boel © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Willem Boel © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Willem Boel © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Willem Boel © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Willem Boel © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Willem Boel © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Willem Boel © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Willem Boel © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Wolfgang Schäfer © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Wolfgang Schäfer © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Wolfgang Schäfer © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Wolfgang Schäfer © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Claudia Mann © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Claudia Mann © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Claudia Mann © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Claudia Mann © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Claudia Mann © Johannes Bendzulla
Ausstellungsansicht, Willem Boel © Johannes Bendzulla
Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf and the Kunst- und Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf.
With the kind support of SIGMA and The Japan Foundation.
Under the patronage of the Japanese Consulate General Düsseldorf
