CONCOTION
While The Exponats Are Taking Rest

Concoction is the process of preparing a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients, and also the result of such a process. Historically, the word referred to digestion, as conceived by Aristotle who theorized that this was the result of the heat of the body acting upon the material, causing it to mature and ripen. In a period of 5 weeks, five dance and performance makers from Frankfurt and the region will inhabit TOR Art Space, using it to rehearse, enact and stage their existing works. Approaching it less as a production space but rather as a possibility to further develop an existing performance, the artists will engage in an exchange and act as hosts to each other's processes. The Frankfurt based TOR Art Space, normally a scene for visual arts, will be inhabited by bodies and movements. What happens to performative work when its environment changes? How will the temporality of attention be affected when a performance made to be shown behind closed theatre doors enters a gallery space, or a hotel room, or an empty swimming pool? In the exchange process with the new environment, performances are picking up from the space where they take place – expanding, adapting, and entering into a relationship with the surrounding conditions. Being moved by this relationality, the works start to be recycled, restaged, and re-enacted. Opening on Thursday, 26.01.2023 at 6:30 p.m.

APPEL NOWITZKI Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main