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MY MUM SAYS THAT’S NOT ALLOWED
A performance about rules for children and their mothers / Foundation bursary project Freiburg Theatre, 2018
“What does it look like when a pizza sticks to the ceiling? Why can’t homeless people stay the night in our guest room? And why is everything fun not allowed?
With the audience, the performance duo Ripchinsky & Ruckstuhl put rules from everyday life to the test and get to the bottom of what’s not allowed. The process is supervised by relentless ethical authorities: their own mothers.
LANTHE DIFFICULT SECOND ALBUM
Performance by and with Paul Norman, Das Bett, 2022
With the British composer Paul Norman, the artist performed “The Difficult Second Album” at the Frankfurt Lab Festival. It initially involved four participatory video conferences/concerts on Sundays with a British and German audience who made music together over afternoon tea and “Kaffee und Kuchen”.
The concert series fed into a live performance in the summer of 2022 in “Das Bett”, a Francfort club, with the group “Mobile Albania” as the support act. Norman & Ripchinsky’s compositions as the group “Tedious Work” produce scores that are only finished at the point when they are being performed and through the participation or non-participation of the respective audience. All those present form a band and together give a concert where failure is allowed to be beautiful and can also be a source of shared fun.
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TRENNUNGSSONGS OF TOGETHERNESS /
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Performance by and with Paul Norman, Birmingham/Frankfurt, 2019
Separation: the action or state of moving or being moved apart.
Song: a set of words set to music or meant to be sung.
Togetherness: the state of being close to another person or other people.
“Trennungssongs of Togetherness” features twelve games that can be played without prior knowledge, but when they are played a song emerges from each one. Depending on who is playing, the song sounds different. While they are playing, people can have fun together but also reflect on subjects such as togetherness and separation and how these themes affect us as individuals and communities at the same time. The group “Tedious Work” enjoys giving performances on political topics, such as Brexit here and the causes and consequences of it, without addressing them directly. For starters the contents are propositions. During the performances themselves, completely new ideas about what is being performed often crop up.
“How do you make a piece about Brexit without talking about Brexit?”
LIEBE
Performance in the Mousonturm House of Artists, Frankfurt am Main, 2018
For this project Leander Ripchinsky asked 50 different groups to each work on a solo performance with him. These 50 different pieces became an archive of live appearances and each performance comprises a different selection of these pieces. Thus as the performer ages, the solo performances age with him and no two performances are alike.
Leander Ripchinsky likes working with different artistic tools and different people. “Liebe” [Love] is an attempt to takes these working principles to extremes.
