Lunatic Cloud Ten

Charlotte Triebus

Performance and installation, 2017

A dancer rises slowly beside a white cloud. As the cloud fills with air, their movements fall into step.

Outside the illuminated festival building at night, a crowd watches a performer beside the white cloud.

Charlotte Triebus performs with an air-driven fabric sphere 3.2 metres across. Over twenty-five minutes she rises, joins the cloud and gradually draws away from the audience. Air acts like a muscle between them. A small shift in the fabric can follow her movement or prompt the next one.

Nicola L. Hein composed the soundscape from recordings of sixteen prepared fans and twelve prepared solenoids. Their whir and rattle accompany the almost imperceptible rise of the fabric. After the performance, the cloud stays in the room, expanding and subsiding.

An illuminated, teardrop-shaped cloud hangs under a dark tree.
The illuminated cloud is visible through the trees at night.

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Presentations

Urban Stage, Bayer Kultur, Erholungshaus Leverkusen, 2017. Curated by Julia Ritterskamp and Andrea Peters.

Kulturbunker Ehrenfeld, Cologne, 2017. Curated by the jungekunstfreunde of Museum Ludwig.

Jazzfest Berlin, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, 2018. Triebus performed outdoors on the opening night of the festival.

The fabric seams of the inflated cloud are visible in front of the festival foyer.
A dark impression is visible through the taut surface of the cloud.
A small visitor in a green suit stands directly beside the cloud’s fabric skin.
The performer lies on the gallery floor, with the cloud’s white fabric draped behind her.
Triebus sits upright inside a fold of the translucent material.
Visitors stand in a semicircle on the wooden gallery floor beside the cloud.
The performer stands close to the white sphere, which occupies almost the entire frame.
Credits
Concept, realisation and performance
Charlotte Triebus
Sound design and composition
Nicola L. Hein
Costume
Jana Manfroid
Development and production
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Supervision
Heide Hagebölling-Eisenbeis, Mischa Kuball

Archive

Works

We, Brute FORCE

Stereoscopic
dance film

Misha Ostenrath and Kevin Beyer face the camera in a dark brick canal.

An eight-minute stereoscopic dance film for two dancers and a seated viewer.

is a rose

A visitor leans toward a suspended plant in is a rose.

An interactive installation. Plant movement and a screen image respond to visitors.

afk

Large photographic works in the gallery installation afk.

proxy

Two digital bodies intertwined above a landscape in proxy.

kin_

Augmented reality dancers seen through a tablet in kin_.

The Code

A wide view of The Code with two dancers and a speaker on stage, a freestanding screen, and the seated audience in the foreground.

Multitudes

An open copy of Multitudes with drawings and a transparent water-like layer extending beyond its pages.

Research & writing

Agency in the postdigital performing artsDoctoral research

Artistic research into agency in performances involving human bodies and computational systems.

MultitudesResearch comic

Drawing and sequential images as forms of artistic research.

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Selected publications

About

Charlotte Triebus is an artist, choreographer and researcher. Her practice brings together dance, installation and technology.

She leads the ensemble New Human Body Society.

Biography & CV