Curriculum Vitae
guest performance: Mausoleum Buffo, May 2nd + 3rd, 20:00
andcompany&Co. is an international performance-collective, which was founded in 2003 by Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord and Sascha Sulimma to work with artistic partners on the interface of theater and theory, politics and practice. Their performances are a humorous game with facts and fiction, which packs bits and pieces of aesthetic and philosophical projects of the 20th century musically and mixes them into a new political statement. Their working methods functions accordingly as re-mixes and re-animation, a principle that the &Co.-abbreviation already pays tribute to: &Co.LABs is the name of the experimental laboratories and performance-lectures, which precedes or accompanies their theatre-works, which take place on location, like Revolutionary Timing in 2006 with Noah Fischer in the AT&T building in Lower Manhattan, NY. Their work little red (play): ‘herstory’ (2006) received international attention and was invited to noumerous festivals like the KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS 07 in Brussels or to the Wiener Festwochen in may 2008. It is the first part of a trilogy about the “short history of the 20th century” (Hobsbawm) between communism and anti-communism. The second part TIME REPUBLIC had premiere at steirischer herbst in Graz in 2007, MAUSOLEUM BUFFO, the third and last part, is recently touring Europe.
contact: andcompany(at)andco.de
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Nicola Nord is a theatre-maker, performer and singer. After she studied theater-, film- and media-science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt/ Main, she received an artists’ stipend at DasArts (The Amsterdam School for Performing Arts). little red (play): 'herstory' was her final project which is inspired by her life as a ‘red diaper baby’ in West-Germany. In 2004 Nicola directed the play Die Ermittlung by Peter Weiss in the IG Farben House with students, a play about the Frankfurt Auschwitz-trial. She also directed and performed in the play for urbanites – nach den großen Städten which was developed for the closure of the TAT (Theater am Turm, Frankfurt/M.) She taught at the 5th summer-academy of the National Theater of Greece (Athens) with Alexander Karschnia: Exiles, Nomads, Refugees which inspired the group to undertake a research-tour to the European outer-borders through the border triangle Bulgaria-Greece-Turkey which was turned into the play Europe an alien. In summer 2005 she toured with an auto-mobile archive for utopias, lost and found in a red VW-bus to the DasArts Daily and the off-limits-festival in Dortmund. She now lives and works in Berlin.
Bini Adamzcak is the instable alliance of quarrelsome ghosts (for example of deconstructivist feminisms and orthodox critique of value), unwanted heritages and every-day reproduction-modes. Aside from that she is an independent author and editor of the Frankfurt-based magazine discus. In 2004 she wrote the book Communism. Small story how finally everything will change (Unrast-publishing house) at the occasion of the international culture-conference Indeterminate! Kommunismus in Frankfurt/M. There she showed her performance Communism for Kids for the first time, where she was reading out of her book. Because of the great success Bini was invited to a number of lectures and is touring with a D-Jane through Germany. At the moment Bini Adamczak works at her new book: Undead. About the loneliness of Communist ghost and the reconstruction of the future.
Alexander Karschnia, performer, texter & theoretician, writes about and for theatre. He studied theatre-, film- and media-science at the Goethe-university in Frankfurt/M., joined the postgraduate program Experience of time and aesthetic perception to write a PhD-thesis about Heiner Müller’s SHAKESPEARE FACTORY under the supervision of Hans-Thies Lehmann and worked for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors Of The Shoah Visual History Foundation. He is co-founder of andcompany&Co. and gives workshops, lecture performances or curates conferences to pass the time, for example To Pass the time in Frankfurt 2004 or NA(AR) HET THEATER – after theater? for the Hogeschool voor den Kunsten 2006 (both occasions have led to the publications of books). Among the sins of his youth are the invention of the Frankfurt night.dance.demo and the campaign with Christoph Schlingensief to vote oneself during federal elections in 1998. He now lives and works in Berlin.
Sascha Sulimma, sound-artist, musician and DJ from Frankfurt am Main, now living in Berlin, develops acoustic landscapes and music for theater, performance and dance. He is co-founder of andcompany&Co. and founder of the &Co.-Soundsystem. Next to the projects with andcompany&Co. he creates sound installations, produces electronic music and plays Dj sets in clubs and theater festivals. Sascha worked with Raqs Media Collective, Frankfurter Küche, Magda Reiter, Noah Fischer, I. Helen Jilavu, JI-hyun Youn et. al.
