Opening: Thu, 13.03.2025, 7pm
Duration: Fri, 14.03. – Sat, 26.04.2025
Performances on:
- Thu, 13. 03.2025, 7:30pm
- Thu, 10.04.2025, 7:30pm
- Sat, 26.04.2025, 4pm
Artists: Deva Schubert
Curator: Frederike Sperling
Credits/Team: Deva Schubert (concept and choreography), Camilla Schielin (performance), Lukas Kötz (spatial design), Davide Luciani (sound artist), Jette Büchsenschütz (dramaturgy),Clara Hoehre (costume), Dylan Kerr, Chihiro Araki, Siegmar Zacharias (sound recordings), Lotta Beckers (outside eye and text contributions sound installation)
The live exhibition Silent Spills I by performance artist and choreographer Deva Schubert is an intimate exploration of the porosity of the body as source of uncontrollable leaking, taboo thoughts, sounds, and secretions. It takes a feminist perspective: female-read persons, in particular, are forced to restrict their physicality, make themselves small, be quiet, and to not let anything seep out. Who is allowed to “leak”? Who is allowed to speak and who listens?
This entanglement of material and immaterial factors also characterizes the media component of Silent Spills I. At the heart of the project is a sound installation that Schubert will activate performatively together with guests over the course of the exhibition. Thereafter, an expanded version of the project (Silent Spills II) will be presented in the framework of donaufestival 25 in Krems – an “organized” overflow of the show and a practical example of the synergies that emerge when inside and outside connect anew.
Silent Spills is a coproduction by Kunstraum Niederoesterreich and donaufestival.
Deva Schubert is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin. In her artistic practice, she concentrates on experimentation with the voice. She studied dance in Salzburg, Kassel, Copenhagen and at the HZT Berlin as well as visual arts at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Her works explore the crossroads of dance, installation, and digital media, often highlighting the topics of intimacy, collectivity, and the synergies between transdisciplinary practices. They have been presented in renowned institutions such as Haus der Kunst Munich, Kunsthalle Zurich, Gessnerallee Zurich, Uppsala Art Museum, Radialsystem and the Sophiensæle in Berlin as well as at the Transart Festival in Bolzano. Her piece Glitch Choir was awarded the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award in 2024.