Silke Grabinger: SPOTSHOTBEUYS

In the organizer's words:

A collaboration between Silke Grabinger, the Circus of Knowledge and the Institute of Robotics at the Johannes Kepler University.

SPOTSHOTBEUYS brings dancer Silke Grabinger together with Spot, the robot dog developed by Boston Dynamics. Against the backdrop of Joseph Beuys' action I like America and America likes me, the durational performance explores the current relationship between humans and technology. Unlike the coyote, the dog does not symbolize the original nature, but rather the result of the currently most advanced culture. But the relationship to it is not dissimilar. How do dogs and humans communicate? Who poses the danger, who controls whom or who needs to be tamed by whom?

In her works and concepts, Silke Grabinger combines urban and contemporary dance with performative art and robotics. Special attention is paid to the critical examination of social phenomena, artistic paradigms and the function and position of the audience. She is the founder and artistic director of the dance companies SILK Cie and SILK Fluegge, and in 2021 she also opened KLISCOPE, a creative space that is all about creating new experiments and visions. In September 2024, she will launch the KLISCOPE ACADEMY. She is currently further developing the transfer of compositional models into moving art forms with the series Compositional transer inbodied and sheds light on the relationship between humans and robotics in the performance SPOTSHOTBEUYS, which was shown as part of the opening weekend of the Venice Biennale and at ImpulsTanz in Vienna, among others.

Duration: 135 min / Access possible at any time

This performance contains theatrical fog, strobe light effects, nudity and loud music.