about

Marita Bullmann lives and works as an artist in Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown throughout Europe, North and South America and Asia. She is a co-founder of the action laboratory PAErsche. Since 2013 she has been the organizer of the performance art platform INTERVAL.

Marita Bullmann: "My works are engagements with everyday objects: familiar materials, actions, spaces and places. I am seeking a direct encounter between body and space. My working method can be understood as a temporally ephemeral, site- and situation-specific process."

I like to create images or what ever to communicate ideas or what ever. On normal days, I design corporate communication and Websites, but I always try to escape those normal days to expend my horizon. Here you can see me trying to escape.

Performer. Choreographer.
Co- founder of KIPISZ- personal improvisation space.

It persistently drifts away in her dreams. She moves endlessly and falls silent in stillness. She wraps old things with sentiment, empathises with people around her, doesn't understand the world.

Dancer / choreographer / director / dance pedagogue / improviser

A graduate of the Higher Pedagogical School in the field of resocialization and prevention as well as the direction of choreography and dance techniques at the Academy of Music in Łódź. Student of the University of Lodz in the field of cultural studies - art promotion.
Scholarship holder of the Alternative Dance Academy in Poznań - Stary Browar Nowy Taniec and the Institute of Music and Dance - Supporting International Activity in the 2017. Participant of the “Summer Course Improvisation” workshop in Amsterdam under the direction of Katie Duck.

From 2009, he collaborated with Jacek Owczarek as part of the Pracownia Fizyczna team, where he participated in performances, such as: “a3”, “Re: actions” (presented on the Polish Dance Platform), “Zdarzenia”, “Soul Project / PL”, dir. David Zambrano and many other performative activities.
He worked with choreographers from Poland and abroad: Rosanna Gamson in the production of “TOV”, Robert Hayden in the “Oratorium Dance Project”, Ray Chung as part of the exhibition on improvisation “Come, we will show you what we do” at the Museum of Art in Lodz, Anna Godowska and Sławomir Krawczyński in a spectacle that develops the concept of dancing the dreaming body: “Batailie. The dawn of new days” (presented on the Polish Dance Platform), by Rafał Dziemidok on an improvised performance by “Peter and the Wolf”, Alicja Morawska-Rubczak in a play for children up to 3 years old, “Close”; with Kaya Kolodziejczyk at the performative-movement installation “Audition V”, Joanna Leśnierowska and Janusz Orlik in the play “Zaczyn. Yanka Rudzka.”

He collaborates with the Lublin Dance Theater (“Hallo Kitty”), the Dada von Bzdülöw Theater (“Transmigrazione di fermenti d’amore”), Pinokio (“The Sorcerer Oz”, “Everything Is Moving”), the Music Theater in Łódź (“Fiddler on the Roof”, “Wonderfull Town”, “All That Jazz beetwen us”, “Wesoła Wdówka” ), V6 (“Aquarius”, “Nius”, “Imaginarium”), Dramatic in Warsaw (“Peer Gynt”), Centrum Dialogu im. The Edelman brand in Łódź (“Emisariusz”), Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź and many other cultural and art institutions in Poland. Performances with his participation were exhibited, among others in Lviv, at the Museums Quartier in Vienna, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, San Sebastian, Singapore, Oslo, Tiblisi, Kiev, Minsk, Yerevan, Lubiana, at the Sic! International Dance Improvisation Festival, Polish Dance Platform and International Dance Theater Theaters in Lublin.

He began his own creative work by co-creating the performances "Ćmy" (Physics Laboratory), "9.81" - maintained in the language of new circus, performance-improvisation "24h" and "Logografowie. Moving." Crowning the residence at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Opole. Another important undertaking in the choreographic work is "the Stencil" - his original project, whose first installment is the performance "the Stencil [Ground Clearance]" created within the framework of the Festival Dotknij Teatru in Łódź. The performance "the Stencil" was appreciated and honored by the jury of The Best OFF competition organized by the quarterly Nietak!T and the teatralny.pl portal. Subsequent work as a choreographer and director is "Without repetition" - a multidisciplinary and "Dual Fusion" performance, both performed as part of the Dotknij Teatru in 2018. The latest production from 2019 is "Connective Tissue" a performance that touches the issues of the individual and the city. In 2020, he created "Gradient" performances with circus actors in Lublin. As part of the scholarship, the mayor of the city of Łódź gave the spectacle "thaw". In 2021, he created the performances "An Attempt at Presence" at the Academic Center for Artistic Initiatives in Łódź and "Miracles Will Not Be" co-financed by the Theatre Institute in Warsaw.

His main interest is the improvisation, in order to broaden his understanding and experience of it, he initiated the creation of the collective "Time for Nothing" and KIPISZ - Space for personal improvisation (www.kipisz.pl).

Ivo works as a performer, does installations, concept art and comunity based art. He is based in Essen Germany and works mostly in Germany, Switzerland or Austria.

Gadu Gadu is an artistic game from Maschinenhaus Essen Germany in cooperation with the Offspace KIPISZ Łódź Poland.
See artists from Poland and Germany perform in their very own language. Eight artists face each other and ask questions about their artistic work and answer in their own art form.

I deal with many forms of art. I treat creativity as an element woven into my life. I don't think I'm creating artworks as external artifacts. At least I don't focus on that. I like improvisation, an event, a fleeting impression, a flash of an eye, an escaping thought that I try to capture in some expression. Music is closest to my heart. I also deal with photography and short films. I studied philosophy in Łódź until 2012. I stayed in this city and started to deal with culture animation - I organize a festival in Łódź and a series of concerts under the name Musica Privata - it mainly presents improvised music and contemporary composed music. As a musician, I collaborated with many improvisers, I learned a different approach from each of them and tried to respond in my own way.

Since 2006, Florian Walter works as saxophone and clarinet player as well as composer of contemporary music. He studied music, jazz-saxophone, composition and historical sciences in Essen. Playing in different ensembles in the fields of experimental pop music, modern jazz, improvisation, contemporary and theatre music, he seeks new ways to develop and construct sound, and to perform it in a situative context, without falling back onto stereotypes of traditional musical conceptions. He is as well developing methods to present contemporary music and arts, as for example a concert series with improvised music in convenient stores since 2010.
In 2019 he received the Westphalia Jazz Award.
In 2020, The Dorf & Umland was honored with the WDR-Jazzaward.

Right now he is working on different fields of interest, including game theory, quantum physics, improvised music and composing for robots.