Videoworks exhibited in Museum for Contemporary art Shanghai, MoCa Pavillion

BREATH is a series of 3 video works created by German dance artist Kristina Veit in the framework of the Sino-German Platform. After exchanging prior works with Chinese visual artist Tang Dixin, Kristina Veit intended to further explore Dixins’ previous concept of embedding a stage into a non-stereotypical setting, resulting in the start of the collaboration. The three chosen environments also stimulated Kristina to return to a previous topic of work, breath and the breathing body, which acts as a common ground between the changing locations. By staging the material in a clean studio, an underground station and a bridge above a highway, different features begin to dominate the focus and shift the perception of time. The sounds, rhythms and images produced, create a subtle connection to perhaps the essential elements of life itself. Sometimes they are heard, seen, valued and exposed, and other times they become muted, hidden and almost irrelevant.

BREATH 01 II BREATH 02 II BREATH 03

Created, performed, & edited by Kristina Veit
Filmed by Federico Canosa
All rights reserved Kristina Veit.

Live Performance: Tang Dixin
Project Manager: Mareike Uhl
Curator: Wang Weiwei

Supported by Goethe Institut, Mercator Stiftung, Tanzlabor_21, MoCA Pavillion Shanghai

The Sino-German-Platform is a cooperation between Tanzlabor 21 in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (China) enabling an exchange of artists from the respective cities and regions. Frankfurt based dancer and choreographer Kristina Veit and Chinese visual artist Tang Dixin entered an artistic dialogue by reacting to their respective works, corresponding to their artistic disciplines.