Re-cordis: Remember – Giving Back through the Heart
		Group performance for the Student Forum of the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück 1997 original length 35 minutes
Performance:		Walli Höfinger, Christiane Hommelsheim, Beate Kercher, Ingrid Mwangi, Gabriel Pichler, Gertrud Riedmüller, Klaudia Stoll, Jacqueline Wachall
Camera:		Robert Hutter, Susanne Wilms
Editing:		Ingrid Mwangi
		This all-female student group was formed in October 1996 on the common basis of Ulrike Rosenbach’s performance training program, and it has been working independently ever since. The performance “Recordis: Remember, Giving Back through the Heart” consists of contributions by individual performers united by the concept of improvisation and space. Common thematic elements and actions that transcend the individual give rise to levels of association which audience members can relate to their own life stories. The core elements of the performance are body-work, improvisation, video and sound.
Walli Höfinger		Numbed heart dividing wall invisible synthetic breathless numb remote.controlled figure-of-eight head Wondering what’s going on, I watch breathless racing frozen simultaneous the pain around the corner waits for its moment pushes on my larynx from below the moment does not come on its own really seeing doesn't come from looking cross my heart Walli Höfinger: born 1966 in Lower Austria. Began studying "New Artistic Media" at the Saar Academy of Fine Arts under Ulrike Rosenbach in 1993. Works with dance, movement, performance and video.
Christiane Hommelsheim		The point between yesterday, today and tomorrow - transition times. Every day, in the morning, when you get up and you crawl out of bed and you crawl out of bed and you crawl out of bed every day in the morning when you get up and you crawl out of bed. Concerning the ambivalence of rhythm, balance and unbearable routine. Christiane Hommelsheim: born 1979 in Göppingen. Studied fine arts in the field of "New Artistic Media" under Ulrike Rosenbach. Degree in 1996, presently on scholarship from the German-French Youth Foundation.
Beate Kercher		The openings out of which the rays emerge from my inner being. What can stop me from beaming? The protective rings become sound-waves. I am earth. You know me. Your inner pressure is my tension. Your inner tension is my suffocation. Radiance is not dangerous. Radiance is not demanding. Listen to my words. Feel my breath. Beate Kercher: born 1970 in Bonn. Studied "New Artistic Media" under Ulrike Rosenbach at the Saar Academy of Fine Arts. Earned her degree in 1996, focusing on voice and movement and the connection between art and healing.
Ingrid Njeri Mwangi		We talk, but at cross purposes. We look at each other, yet we fail to see each other. There are three of us, yet there is only one, playing three roles. We want to communicate, and yet there is no communication. Ingrid Njeri Mwangi: born 1975 in Nairobi, Kenya, German resident since 1990. Studied "New Artistic Media" at the Saar Academy of Fine Arts beginning in 1994.
Gabriele Pichler		Mouth open - cut off the air for the duration of one breath to the point of exhaustion time stands still Gabriele Pichler: born in Lienz, Austria. 1986-1990 studied graphic design in Vienna. Beginning in 1993 studied "New Artistic Media" at the Saar Academy of Fine Arts under Ulrike Rosenbach.
Gertrud Riedmüller		A child carrying out an act of destruction. A woman metamorphosing into an animal. An old woman in mourning. Negatively-charged behavior stands in opposition to life-enhancing vital forces. Gertrud Rietmüller: born 1961 in Niedermendig. Beginning in 1991, studied at the Saar Academy of Fine Arts. Work with installation, video and performance.
Klaudia Stoll		when words come in their midst soars a ponderous ballerina it's my way Klaudia Stoll: born in 1968 in Rastatt. >From 1989-1993, goldsmith training at the Academy of Drawing in Hanau. From 1993 studied "New Artistic Media" at the Saar Academy of Fine Arts under Ulrike Rosenbach.
Jaqueline Wachall		Get up, get on, do it again, check it out, how does it feel, is it purely superficial, does it come from deep inside me, how deep do I want to go, how deep can I go, do I really want to show this side of me, to be honest, not to play a role, just don't even think about the concept, it’s not worth the effort, not good enough, not interesting, I don't have the energy to keep coming back to these thoughts, on another day it’s simply there, I just have to let it, to trust (in myself), an unreal reality bursts into my consciousness, something unforeseeable, I can neither grasp it nor let it fall from my grasp, behind this confusion I am without thought. Jacqueline Wachall: born 1965 in Saarbrücken. From 1993 studied at the Saar Academy of Fine Arts with a concentration on painting and performance.
Text from Ulrike Rosenbach about „the Performance-training at the HBKsaar" connected to the performance (Quote from the European Media Art Fest		The following passage refers to the performance "Re-cordis: Remember - Giving Back through the Heart”, which was performed at the European Media Art Festival 1997 in Osnabrück: Nearly all the students staging performance work in Osnabrück this year are familiar with other artistic techniques such as video, sound, sculpture and painting. In 10 semesters of study with me, Beate Kercher has developed her own voice as a crucial, authentic and artistic tool. This development makes her the most unusual of the young artists to develop out of what is after all an artistic course of study at the Saar Academy of Fine Arts. I believe that only the academy’s extraordinary willingness to experiment has made such a development possible. Christiane Hommelsheim has combined her vocal gifts and her love of the theatre with the development of sound-objects and video productions, which puts her, like Gertrud Riethmüller, into the broader sphere of staged space occupied by plastic objects and performance-based processes whose themes can be drawn from literary models, texts and narratives. Waltraud Höfinger is developing strongly towards ambitions evocative of dance-theatre, which, very much like Klaudia Stoll, develop in slow, repetitive time sequences as improvisations in space. As with Gabriele Pichler, and also with the same intensity, the performance training has had a very intensive influence here, with its structures for improvised movement. Gabriele Pichler makes the development and presentation of individual strengths and energies into a theme for spatial choreography. By contrast, Jacqueline Wachall, as the painter in the group, uses bodily processes and colors for her concepts, while Ingrid Mwangi has chosen her own ethnic roots as the theme of her performance. The degree of personal commitment is great. Performance means total concentration on the here and now, while integrating the intrinsic atmosphere of the movement into the development of bodily processes. All participating students involve themselves in this process with a great degree of personal energy. The task of developing and performing these abilities in front of an audience of strangers means stepping outside the confines of the academy and taking a step beyond performance training.