MURA Kollektiv is a platform for research and creation projects around the topics of body, space, and time.

Through different works, MURA looks at the body and how it gathers, processes and reacts to the sensory information of the environment that it is within while being inspired by collaborations and conversations with other art mediums and science. MURA is interested through its work to bridge the gap between dance and off theater spaces, experiencing how movement can exist outside of the known theater setting while questioning how the human body resonates.

PROJECTS

work in Progress

On commitments & attempts

It’s a series of singular attempts of pre-meditated choreographic structure within the studio space of Flock of None

There are 3 players involved: the moving body, sounds, and the camera.
They are all bound by a commitment to an individual choice. With that, they go through the structure, looking for the full potential of that commitment and the willingness to “make it work” in the moment.

Every attempt is a performance; it becomes important and final. With this mindset, we look into the importance of intuitive vs. strategic choices, the significance of the silence before action, and the potential that it holds.
Through this practice, we learn the economic way of working and collaborating. The practice is a performative structure as well as a video installation.
2022

Selective Narrowing

In order for information to become conscious and accessible for us, we need to shift our attention to it.
Attention is the cognitive process that selectively concentrates on one aspect of information from the external or internal environment while ignoring others. Their is a huge amount of sensorial information that is happening in our bodies at all times in which we have physiological limitations in our capability of processing.

The practice of attention helps us to select which information to process bringing it into consciousness. During our last research at ExpeditionMetropolis we looked at ways of shifting attention enabling us to focus, and zoom in to particular information.

By limiting our visual and audial sensory information we brought attention to the processes that are already mechanically happening within our bodies, challenging our awareness by focusing on the continuous shifts that are present.
2021

Reflecting oneself through space

is a solo performance that takes a closer look at the relationship between spaces/environments and the physical reaction to the information received from these spaces through a practice of live body processing.

During a 45/50 minute journey, one performer works through a task based structural score, becoming a mirror to themselves and the space around them. In an age of information overload, this solo aims to zoom into how the body processes the information of the internal (within the body) and external (outside of the body) environments through both cognitive and emotional processes. These processes consist of interpreting, analysing, and remembering, while using information about the social world to reflect back on how we view ourselves in relation to others, studying how our behavioural patterns change accordingly.

The physical task based practice within the work is based around the study of the nervous system, focusing on the waves of the traveling information and the constant shifts inside our body.
2021

Dialogue of space sensors and self

A space is an area made up of light frequencies, curves, lines, temperatures, and textures that form an overall atmosphere. We vibrate in space and collide with granular events. We move the space.

Dialogue of space sensors and self its a serie of documentations of dance practitioners experiences ,,Other artworks” and the Environment of galleries, museums, concert venues and exhibition spaces within the Berlin area. To shift space means to shift atmosphere, to shift the information that is received and to be able to perceive your being in relation to your surroundings in a new light. It is inescapable that as living bodies we are always in space and have a relationship to the space that we are within.

Research was focused on: how the visual and sensorial information of these environments influence the outcome of the movement, creating a live dialogue and coexistence between movement and space.
2020

Creating Oneself endlessly

Human body is a complex organism, a vehicle through which we are experiencing the world. The solo concentrates on a relationship between ,,ourselves" and our body. A play between experiencing outside world and process of collect informations.

How they become a part of our own reality/personality and how not to loose a sense of ,,self" in that process. Ultimately the importance of Trust in ourself.
2020

Processes and Events

Short movie reflecting on the ideas that We inhabit a vibrational universe. Everything moves. Nothing is at rest.Everything is an energy at different levels of vibration, oscillating and resonating at diverse frequencies. Brain is built out of atoms and electrons, from a physical point of view should be predictable. Consciousness is not achieved by the brain alone, but rather it arises from the brain's interaction with its environment; it requires joint operation of the brain, body and world.

Dialogue of space sensors and self its a serie of documentations of dance practitioners experiences ,,Other artworks” and the Environment of galleries, museums, concert venues and exhibition spaces within the Berlin area. To shift space means to shift atmosphere, to shift the information that is received and to be able to perceive your being in relation to your surroundings in a new light. It is inescapable that as living bodies we are always in space and have a relationship to the space that we are within.

Research was focused on: how the visual and sensorial information of these environments influence the outcome of the movement, creating a live dialogue and coexistence between movement and space.

ABOUT

Karolina Szymura | Creator 

Originally from Poland, Karolina Szymura attended CODARTS arts academy in Rotterdam, graduating in 2010. She went on to work as a dancer for companies Noord Nederlands Dans in The Netherlands, Thomas Noone Dance in Spain, and Landerer & Company in Hannover.

As a freelance artist, she has had a recent and continual working relationship with Alexandra Waierstall (NRW), Astrid Boons (Korzo), and Emanuel Gat (Emanuel Gat Dance).

Karolina has also collaborated with Kunsthalle Mannheim and Bauhaus Museum Dessau as a part of the performance ‘Bodies and Structure’, with a sculpture by artist Rita McBride and choreographed by Alexandra Waierstall. She also collaborated on the project ‘National Chain 2020/Social Practices’ at De Pont Museum Tilburg with Rita McBride and Alexandra Waierstall.
She is now interested in developing her role as a creator through the mediums of both film and performance connected to off-theater spaces. Karolina has been part of the MURA Kollektiv since 2020.

Amy Josh | Performer

Amy Josh was born in England and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. She trained at the Arts Umbrella Dance School in Vancouver, graduating in 2011. She then moved to the Netherlands to work with Noord Nederlands Dans and Club Guy and Roni.

In 2014, she joined the tanzmainz company under the direction of Honne Dohrmann, where she worked with choreographers such as Sharon Eyal, Guy & Roni, Rui Horta, Koen Augustijnen & Rosalba Torres Guerrero, Guy Nader & Maria Campos, Eleonore Valère-Lachky, Garry Stewart, Jose Navas, Jo Stromgren, and Guiseppe Spota.

Since 2018, she has been working as a freelance artist with choreographers Jill Crovisier (JC Movement Productions, Luxembourg), Dunja Jocic (Bird Productions, Korzo), Edan Gorlicki (Inter-actions Heidelberg), and John Wannehag (Sweden).

In addition to working as a freelance artist, Amy is a social media manager and works in various arts management and arts production roles. Amy has been part of the MURA Kollektiv since 2020.

Yoann Pisterman | Sound artist

Yoann Pisterman is a French artist, designer and composer of experimental music. His work intertwines sound and visual art to capture the emotional resonance of space, exploring the concepts on cognitive science, architecture and polyphonic reality.

Yoann studied fine arts at the Universität der Künste in Berlin in 2009. He also holds an MBA diploma (2012) and a Product Design diploma (2020).

He has exhibited and performed his work in both solo and group shows at galleries such as Berlin Art Week, Galerie Eva Meyer (Paris), Evas Arche und der Feminist (Berlin), The Taut and Tame (Berlin), Gallery 533 (Los Angeles), Kunstraum (Innsbruck), and Sintitulo Gallery (Mougins).

Yoann has released multiple EP and LP albums with Ransom Note (UK) and Bié Records (Beijing).

He has been part of the MURA Kollektiv since 2020.