DATE: DeCeMber 8th, 6 pm.
Happy to announce our program opener for the Blonde Cobra 2024. We are excited to present a performance by Berlin based artist Melanie Jame Wolf in collaboration with IMAI Inter Media Art Institue at @LoreDeutz as part of the exhibition “I don’t pay your price” curated by Kat Lawinia Gorska.
Ballads of Outlaw Feelings: a poem, a song, a song, a poem is an ongoing performance series that explores lyrics, voice, and language as a compass for crossing emotional landscapes and other territories. These performances are a live continuation of the themes and atmospheres explored in choreographer and visual artist Melanie Jame Wolf’s 2023 moving image work: The Creep. This body of work is concerned with the poetics and politics of things that creep: time, love, fascism, desire, becoming, and death.
Melanie Jame Wolf is a choreographer, writer, visual artist who lives in Berlin. She works solo and with friends, making interdisciplinary pieces for gallery, theater and screen spaces. She pursues an ongoing interest in analysing the idea of performance-as-labour in artistic, popular entertainment, and everyday contexts. Leaning into a hyper-stylised pop aesthetic, she is invested in humour as a strategy for critical possibility, and in working with language in subliminal and surprising ways. Her work has shown at: HAU – Hebbel am Ufer; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, nGbK, The National 2019: New Australian Art Biennial, Festival of Live Art Melbourne, VAEFF Film Festival NYC, Arts Santa Monica Barcelona, Schwules Museum, Sophiensaele, Münchner Kammerspiele, Arts House Melbourne; KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstmuseum Basel, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. She was a nominee of the 2022 Berlin Art Prize.
