Felix HUBER


is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the fields of stage-, light- and costume design and Performance. He graduated in January 2020 from the Class for Stage- and Film Design (Prof. Bernhard Kleber). After graduation he has been awarded the Start Scholarship for Performing Arts and is currently developing an immersive performance piece called “Be Prepared” dealing with the ongoing crisis of touch.
 
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This image shows my old Atelier ca. 2018. It was a shared space with frequent showings, exhibitions, etc. taking place. We put an imaginary order on to the space, organizing and at the same time showing works and materials

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As a stage designer I do a lot of my design work in scale models, so the work-place really only consists of a table, a cutting mat and your imagination. The image shows huge concrete (1:50 scale) letters spelling L O V E, designed for a project called “It’s hard to give a shit these days – Love stories suck and Isolde had another Tristan” mashing Performance and Dance with the Music of Richard Wagner.

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One unique aspect of creating scenography is it’s temporality. Always designed fot one moment, a designed piece spends most of it’s time stored away, disassembled. The image shows parts of the decoration for a piece called “Das zerbrochene Dorf” (the broken village) showed at Schauspielhaus Hamburg. Put on large steel wagons the single pieces are waiting in the theaters workshop, ready to be taken directly to the stage via a connecting freight elevator to be assembled there.

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This image directly related to the one before. It shows the stage manager’s screen in the technicians office. The set is all set up but neither the audience nor the actors are yet there. The view is truly unique as in no spectator will ever see the play from this angle: a frontal behind the scenes look. Standing next to the stage manager, watching on as he/she gives out commands, calls lighting and sound Cues and watch your work evolve over the tiny analogue screen remains one of my favorite viewing angles.

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As a performance artist as well this “workplace” is special. Since these are hardly rehearsed pieces, the workplace directly coincides with the performance space. The image shows a moment of my performance piece “Inertia”, which I did during last years Angewandte Festival, lying for hours under a block of Ice, not moving and yet trying to keep the Ice from slipping off my body.
Felix Huber