David Weber-Krebs

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David Weber-Krebs

Situations. Encounters. Void

Language: 

None, English, French, German

Contact: 

Artistic director: David Weber-Krebs

T +31 (0) 624823762

E davidweberkrebs@yahoo.fr

I www.davidweberkrebs.org

The work of David Weber-Krebs engages the spectator in a complex game, inviting him to be absorbed by or to merge with an artwork and yet compelling him to maintain his distance. The underlying strategy is to create works of faith and aspiration and yet at the same time to dismantle the very strategies of their communication; not as a minimization of any kind but as part of the very same effort and approach and the very same political responsibility.

David Weber-Krebs expresses himself by means of different formats and disciplines, with huge performances (Among the Multitude, 2009, with 70 people on stage), video works (Conversation (in the woods), 2007), one-to-one encounters, (Miniature, 2009, in an empty building) or lecture-performances (Erschauern/Begreifen, 2009), for example.

David Weber-Krebs works closely with dramaturge Jan-Philipp Possmann and visual artist Alexander Schellow.

International: 

The work of David Weber-Krebs has been co-produced and presented in numerous theatre, dance and visual arts venues. Performances like this performance (2004) and Fade out (2005) have toured all over Europe and in countries like Russia and Brazil. ‘Weber-Krebs addresses the tension between the individual and the group, between social life and loneliness. The performance does not offer redemption to our hopeless condition humaine, but means of coping with it,’ Pieter T’Jonck writing in Etcetera about Among the Multitude (2009).