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MeMe

Showing by Olivia Hyunsin Kim

„MeMe“ starts with the question whether stereotypes are not only restrictions, but also when flipped in another way, a mean of empowerment. So far I have been dealing with stereotypes only on a level of parody. Looking back I question myself if this has become another reproduction of their representation and might have contributed to the status quo in the hierarchy of racial or sexual stereotypes. 'MeMe' deals with the materiality and embodiment of different stereotypes, not only the ones usually identified with me, but also the opposite. This is a (work in progress) showing of my research so far.

Concept, Choreography & Performance: O. Hyunsin Kim | Sound Design & Performance: Baly Nguyen | Stage & Light Design: Lea Schneidermann | Costume: Kristin Gerwien | Dramaturgy: Wicki Bernhardt | Choreography Assistance: Ricarda Sowa | In coproduction with SOPHIENSÆLE. Supported by Einstiegsförderung of the Berlin Senate, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Hessische Theaterakademi and Gießener Hochschulgesellschaft.

The showing is also part of the Theaterscouting venues tour „U8 - artery of the avant-garde“

Olivia Hyunsin Kim

Olivia Hyunsin Kim (she/her) works as a choreographer and curator. In 2019, she won first place in the Amadeu Antonio Art Prize and completed her MA in Choreography and Performance at the Institute of Applied Theater Studies in Giessen, Germany, with honors. Prior to that, she completed her BA in German Studies at Seoul National University, also with honors, and studied dance at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and Falmouth University. She was a resident artist at Impulstanz 2017, at the Goethe-Institut Montréal & Circuit-Est centre choréographique 2022, at the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul 2021-2023, and at the Goethe-Institut Salvador 2023. In the 2022/23 season she is composer-in-residence at the Staatsoper Hannover. Her work has been shown at Sophiensælen Berlin, tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, Rote Fabrik Zurich, Art Sonje Center Seoul, and Museo Universitario del Chopo Mexico City, among others. Under the ddanddarakim, she works in recurring constellations with artists from different disciplines on choreographic works with a queer-feminist and postcolonial focus. 

Admission free