ps: I love u

 

For PS: I Love U, Nora Hansen and Josefine Reisch bring together a thoughtful selection of intimate correspondence from over 200 years. In a stage situation somewhere between a press conference and a late night show, they perform a multi-faceted collage of love songs and love letters, revealing the wide spectrum of ways to express fondness and friendship. Ranging from the 18th to the 21st century, Hansen and Reisch merge the personal correspondences, examining the shared humanity revealed in them. The audience is invited to join them in their study of love, in search of inspiration and practical advice. (Anna-Lisa Scherfose, 2024)

Past readings have included thoughts by Hans Arp, Napoleon Bonaparte, Gluck, Nesta Obermeier, Rihanna, James Joyce, Stevie Wonder, Nora Barnacle, Octavia E. Butler, David Guetta, Beyoncé Knowles, Virginia Woolf, Nina Simone, Radclyffe Hall, Paula Modersohn-Becker, SIA, Simone de Beauvoir, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Tina Turner & Eros Ramazotti and many more. 

  Ps: I Love U – A musical reading, Nora Hansen, Josefine Reisch and special guests, Café Bravo, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2024, Photo: Jaewon Chang

Ps: I Love U – A musical reading, Nora Hansen, Josefine Reisch and special guests, Café Bravo, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2024, Photo: Albi Fouché

Ps: I Love U – A musical reading, Nora Hansen, Josefine Reisch and special guests, Café Bravo, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Curated by Anna-Lisa Scherfose, Performer: Nora Hansen, Josefine Reisch, Anna-Lisa Scherfose and Julija Zaharijević

The performance took place within the Events Programm of the BPA// Exhibition 2024 Half-Light curated by Anna-Lisa Scherfose

 ps: I love U, performed by Lisa Oord, Josefine Reisch and Nora Hansen, Simultanprojekte 2021, Simultanhalle, Cologne, 2021, Foto: Kris Obricht

 

Ps: I Love U, performed by Elmar Hermann, Josefine Reisch, Nora Hansen and Lukas Goersmeier, in: Mary & the volcano. A meteorological phantasmagoria, 2016, KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf

How do artistic processes come about, what inspires artists? At least for 1816, the so-called “Year Without a Summer” when especially Southern Europe suffered under an abnormally severe cold spell resulting from the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, there is a concrete answer to this question: The bad weather drove Mary Shelley, who was staying at Lake Geneva, to write her bestselling horror novel “Frankenstein.” Influenced by this example of fantastic literature, KIT presents a selection of artworks from over the past 200 years. Setting out from the „Gespenstersommer“(Summer of Ghosts) of 1816 the exhibition Mary & the volcano – A meteorological phantasmagoria presents works by 21 artists, the works’ dates of origin range from 1816 to the present. Based on a historical event the artists reflect on the main features of creative action by means of drawings, paintings, sculptures, sound installations or contemporary works such as video and performance. Conceptually the exhibition Mary & the volcano considers itself to be a wholeness merged from its individual artworks similar to the constituent elements of a system within a lava flow. The villa and the volcano form both the framework of the exhibition as well as two poles communicating through the tunnel of art.