{"id":626,"date":"2016-10-09T21:49:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T21:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=626"},"modified":"2019-02-11T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T22:18:07","slug":"what-happened-to-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/what-happened-to-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"what happened to autumn?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"physallis\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

herbst (autumn) has come and gone too quickly this year. one day i was enjoying riding my bike in the warm evening air, the next day i was getting out my winter coat, boots and umbrella. the leaves are still clinging to the trees but temperatures have plummeted, and today i cut down the tomato plants on the balcony. some still had green tomatoes on them, so these have gone into a paper bag in the kitchen, to ripen there. the lovely physalises (physalii??) at right are from nicki<\/a>‘s mother’s garden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Magdalena<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

i am currently completely busy with the organisation of “Magdalena M\u00fcnchen – In Between<\/a>” – a long weekend of performances, workshops, installations, discussions and more; part of my efforts to establish the Magdalena Project<\/a> network in munich and germany. it’s not an easy task to organise something like this in a city where i am not only an outsider, an auslander, but also where i don’t speak the language well and am not so au fait with the peculiarities of the arts community – the personalities, relationships, and so on that are different in every cultural ecosystem. i have to navigate all of this, with limited language ability, and sometimes it’s pretty challenging. of course, i’m not doing it alone – i’m working with a team of great women, but our project is new and not easily communicated to people who have a vast selection of arts and culture to choose from. first of all we have to get across the concept of the Magdalena Project – that it is an international network, and that it is not only about “theatre” (germans have a very narrow definition of “theatre”) but it encompasses a great variety of live performance work. and then we have to promote the individual women artists, who are all amazing in their own ways. we have to promote Violeta Luna<\/a> to the spanish-speaking community and to people who are interested in political performance; Sandra Pasini<\/a> should be of interest to the Italian community, as well as to musicians, singers, and so on. for Kordula Lobeck de Fabris<\/a>, i’m trying to find out who in munich is interested in art projects inside prisons. and so on … most people in munich haven’t heard of the Magdalena Project, let alone any of these individual artists. so it’s a big job!

as if it wasn’t already challenging enough, annie abrahams & i will perform “Unaussprechbarlich<\/a>” again on the opening night, friday 14 october. we created this performance last year, based on our experiences of learning another language as adults to live in a foreign country (annie moved from the netherlands to france 30 years ago, and i moved from new zealand to germany six years ago). i admit to being a little bit nervous about performing as well as organising – it’s something many magdalenas seem able to do without difficulty, but as i’m not really a performer myself, it’s more stressful. i’m doing my best to prepare in advance!

immediately after Magdalena M\u00fcnchen, i’m off to Coventry for the next iteration of “We have a situation!<\/a>“. this time the project will explore the university-city social relationship, something that should have resonance for many other university towns around the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Helen<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

meanwhile in other news: while at the Transit Festival<\/a> in june, i was interviewed by the wonderful zoe gudovic for her series of inspiring feminist artists. the interview is now online here<\/a>, and that’s us talking together in the photo at the right. i recommend checking out the others who zoe has interviewed – read the interviews here<\/a> and get inspired! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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