THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION
2024-2025 COPRODUCTIONS & SHOWS KRÄHENBÜHL & CO. THEATER WINKELWIESE ZÜRICHjanvier 2025BÜHNE AARAU, TUCHLAUBEmars 2025 An evening on feminicide A mysterious disease is spreading across the planet. The infection causes men to dissolve the barrier in their brains between the sexual impulse and violence. The result is the emergence of religious sects that advocate feminicide for […]
CRESCENDO MORTALE
2005 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS SCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN OORSMEER FESTIVAL Performance for 47 pianos and the same number of children as part of the “Oorsmeer” festival at the Schlachthaus Theater and the Music School of Bern. October 2005. CONCEPT, DIRECTION, COMPOSITION Astride Schlaefli Trailer Galerie
THE APPLE
2004 …or or how to smash an apple while listening to the Goldberg Variations Performance at the KlangKunstBühne (Universität der Künste in Berlin), 2004. Trailer Galerie
IN FLAGRANTE
2010 Five performances of the Collectif barbare in public spaces, stemming from the experimentation of the earlier “Atteintes à la pudeur” (“Breaches of modesty”). Five actions which question the relationship between passers-by and public space, between art and civil society, and which are characterized by the ambiguity of their form, suspended between staging and distortion […]
PIANIST
2012 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS GASTSPIEL FESTIVAL Zürich solo for pianist without piano “pianiste” offers spectators an intimate and colourful alternative to the classical piano recital. Here, Astride Schlaefli uses “Bontempi” pianos made of orange, red and green plastic, cassettophones, harmonicas, music boxes, a megaphone, a pan flute, a melodica with a hairdryer, a record player, […]
SCHTRRR
2004 Memorable show performed in June 2004, of which only the final photo remains.
STEP ON NO PETS
2012 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS STADTGALERIE BERN Rituals are a basic feature of the art business. Openings, discourse events, artist talks, symposia, the awarding of prizes, grants, studio visits, self-marketing, networking, art fairs, off-spaces — the everyday processes of art are subject to unwritten but constantly recurring conventions, and for its various actors, success within the […]