The 90s – Three short pieces
Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki/Raiko Sánchez, Minh Duc Pham & Irina Pauls
Three artists and their teams, who are connected to HELLERAU and the Saxon-East German region and history in very different ways, are developing short pieces that take up various aspects of the search for traces in the 1990s and transfer them to the present day.
Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki/Raiko Sánchez
Based on their experiences as softies and “shits”, the two artists examine their own biographical experiences as well as well-known myths in relation to youthful masculinity in the rural areas of East Germany in the 1990s for their short piece. They see fragile potential in the baseball bat and use it to explore their (dis)desire for violence.
Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki lives in Leipzig and works as an artist and theater scholar. Mike is doing his doctorate on (non-)consensual practices of rehearsal/intimacy coordination at the Berlin University of the Arts. Mike Dele’s artistic work has recently been shown at LOFFT Leipzig, Viernulvier Gent and Komuna Warszawa in addition to HELLERAU.
Raiko Sánchez is an artist who lives in Berlin and works in the field of analog and digital appropriation of space. Raiko studied at the HfBK Dresden, graduated there in 2019 as a master student of Martin Honert and went to the UdK Berlin to complete a master’s degree in spatial design and exhibition design with Gabi Schillig.
Minh Duc Pham
For “Spurensuche” in HELLERAU, Minh Duc Pham deals with the consequences of contract work and the fall of the Berlin Wall for Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR. Minh Duc Pham, born in Schlema in 1991, completed a degree in exhibition design and scenography at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and studied performance and design theory as a guest student at the Berlin University of the Arts. In his works in the fields of visual and performing arts, Minh Duc deals with the topic of identity in the field of tension between gender, race and class. Pham lives and works in Berlin.
Irina Pauls
The concrete upheavals in the East are reflected in many of her choreographic and performative works. The site-specific artistic response to (industrial) landscapes is becoming increasingly important in Irina Pauls’ artistic work and is also the subject of her short piece. Irina Pauls received her dance and choreography training at the Palucca School in Dresden and at the “Hans Otto” Theater Academy in Leipzig. Her first production in 1985 at the Landestheater Altenburg as a 25-year-old ballet director was to be the liberation from a preconceived GDR understanding of dance theater. In 1990, she founded the dance theater at Schauspiel Leipzig. After its closure, she moved to Oldenburg, later to Heidelberg, and her work became increasingly international. Irina Pauls has been living in Saxony again as a freelance artist since 2007.
