The Danish artists Nina Beier (born 1975) and Marie Lund (born 1975) work as a team since 2003 and became especially known for productions which involve the audience by implicating it in apparently everyday life situations. In their work the artists deal with the coherence of memory and identity as well as contemporary rituals of representation whereby they frequently draw upon strategies of performance.
The confusing game with traditional role-attributions is increasingly used as a reflection and checkup of individual and corporative moral concepts which authenticate identity. Furthermore we find an examination of production and staging practices.

As part of the series Staging –Der Cuboid als Bühne (The Cuboid as a stage) Nina Beier and Marie Lund will realise a walkable stage landscape for Kunstverein Braunschweig which contemporaneously will be a scope of documentation.

Their current project A Circular Play combines work of remembrance and performance practice in a special way: While actor Armin Dallapiccola performs Samuel Becketts one-man play “Krapp’s last tape” on a stage a stenotypist placed oppositely on a second stage will note his words and gestures. These notes create the script for the following performance which again will be logged etcetera.

Samuel Beckett’s play thematises memory by introducing two levels of time to the play: already being an old man the protagonist Krapp listens to tape recordings from earlier times while commenting on them. Nina Beier and Marie Lund add an additional level of time: the viewer’s experience. A Circular Play does not only quote the original title of the play which was written by the American poet and dramatist Gertrude Stein in 1920 but internalises the author’s basic thoughts. It stages a multi-centred stage landscape and focuses on the process of experience as a part of the play itself. A Circular Play is formed in an indissociable reciprocating motion of performance, experience and documentation hence it creates series of periphrasis which especially take the gaps in comprehension seriously. Consequently A Circular Play actualises experiences as Play in Circles.

After having taken part in several international group shows and performances in art institutions as for instance Tate Modern, Tate Britain and ICA London we are happy to present a solo show by Nina Beier and Marie Lund as the first German institution.

As an opening event a performance will take place Friday, August 29th, 9pm.

Additional dates will be announced.

During the exhibition period the walkable stages will be exposed as an installation as well as an additional video project by the artists will be shown.