Give-and-Take Performance | Shifting Perspectives
Social Muscle Club
International Coproduction Fund Goethe-Institut
Shifting Perspectives
The “Social Muscle Club” relies on 100% INTERACTION: What are you ready to give, what do you need? In an atmosphere ranging between euphoric wedding and chaotic game show, social muscles are communally exercised. Inspired by the Sheffield workers’ club, which saw its main task in entertainment and mutual support, the “Social Muscle Club” started out as a private happening in a Berlin living-room. Nowadays, they cooperate with the South African artists’ collective Alma Martha. Rather than providing machines or courses to enhance your physical fitness, the “Social Muscle Club” offers new forms of getting together and numerous exercises in giving and taking, for effort and involvement, openness and authenticity.
By and with SMC Berlin:
Richard Aslan, Claudia Basrawi, Knut Berger, Ronald Berger, Agathe Chion, Anna de Carlo, Rainer von Dziegielewski, Jill Emerson, Jared Gradinger, Chris Gylee, Lukas Harlan, Steve Heather, Eva Philipps, Juli Reinartz, Rahel Savoldelli, Judith Stößenreuter, M.I.C.A
as well as Mav Anderson (Rostige Nadel), Jennifer Bell (SMC Bristol), Lea Gessler & Leon Heinz (Internationale Gastronautische Gesellschaft), Thomas Kasebacher (SMC Vienna), Mmakgosi Kgabi, Liz Korzack, Julia Reidy, Taylor Savvy, Benedikt Wyss (SMC Basel)
With kind support of Sophiensæle and Uferstudios GmbH