Hendrik Quast
Hendrik Quast (born 1985 in Celle) is a German performance artist.
Career
He graduated from the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus Liebig University Gießen, where he studied under Heiner Goebbels.
Due to Quast's processual understanding of theatre in the tradition of postdramatic theatre, his work transcends not only established dramaturgies and temporalities, but also the genres performance and theater. For his performances, he learns performing techniques such as ventriloquism, mime and musical singing. He includes everyday practices, crafts and cultural techniques such as taxidermy, nail design and funeral floristry in his performances, which are performed on stage or in site-specific formats. His works draw on queer aesthetics, pop culture and everyday experiences of chronic conditions. Quast questions canonised theatre and the distinction between entertainment and high culture. In his latest performances, Quast appears as an alter ego that adapts specific ways of speaking and acting depending on the context. For example, he plays the "Influcancer" named Hendrik with a "K" who is a mime coach for social media in the project "Dancer with Cancer“. In the project "Spill Your Guts“, Quast goes on stage as a ventriloquist with his puppet personifying his chronic condition.[1][2][3][4]
Quast performs in independent theatres, such as Sophiensaele Berlin, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt/Main, and Kampnagel in Hamburg. He also performs at art institutions such as GAK Bremen, M1 Hohenlockstedt and Fridericianum. His works are part of international art festivals such as Impulse, Steirischer Herbst, Festival a/d Werf and Summer Festival Kampnagel. As author and director, he adapted three of his theatre works as radio plays for WDR Cologne.
From 2011 to 2015, he worked at the Graduate School of the Berlin University of the Arts in the field of aesthetic research. Since 2023, he is an artistic PhD candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts and is doing his PhD on humour and sickness in the performative art in cooperation with Zurich University of the Arts.
Performances & Publications
Solo performances
- 2009: slipsight, Impulse Festival 2009, Cologne, Mülheim, Düsseldorf
- 2009: Furnier, behandlungsraum, (en: Veneer. Treatment Room), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
- 2012: Trauer tragen (en: Performing Mourning), Sophiensaele Berlin, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, zeitraum exit Mannheim
- 2014: Mohrle, Sophiensaele Berlin, Mousonturm Frankfurt /M., Gessnerallee Zurich, FFT Düsseldorf, brut Vienna
- 2020: Dancer with Cancer, Festival "Die Irritierte Stadt", Musik der Jahrhunderte, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Theater Rampe Stuttgart
Radio plays in German
- 2012: Trauer tragen (en: Performing Mourning), in cooperation with Maika Knoblich, composition: Katharina Stephan Ur-Sendung ARD-Themenwoche "Leben mit dem Tod“ (Theme week "Living with the death") (WDR)
- 2015: Mohrle. Eine Fabel, (en: Mohrle: A fable) in cooperation with Maika Knoblich, composition: Katharina Stephan, production: the authors (WDR)
- 2020: Nagelneu. (en: Nailed it), in cooperation with Maika Knoblich, composition: Katharina Stephan, production: the authors (WDR) - Hörspiel des Jahres 2021 (Radio play of the year 2021)
Performances Hendrik Quast & Maika Knoblich
- 2012: Heide, Huis a/ Werf Utrecht
- 2013: Der Ur-Forst, Sophiensaele Berlin, Festival Impulse
- 2016: Nagelneu (en: Nailed it), Sophiensaele Berlin, FFT Düsseldorf, Schwankhalle Bremen
- 2018: Hundeplatz (en: Human–canine bonding), Sophiensaele Berlin
- 2019: Casting Freischütz, Sophiensaele Berlin, Gessnerallee Zürich
- 2020: PPtv, steirischer herbst Festival
Texts
- Publication and co-editing: Haffner, Nik, and Hendrik Quast. Research Environments: Das Bewerten und Verwerten Künstlerischer Prozesse. Reflections on the Value of Artistic Processes. (German/English publication) Verlag der Universität der Künste Berlin, 2015. ISBN 9783894622732
- 2021: Dramaturgien von unten (en: Dramaturgie from below), in: Franziska Werner, Joy Kristin Kalu, Alexander Kirchner (ed.): Openings. Sophiensaele 2011–2021. (German/English publication) Alexander Verlag, pp. 262–264. ISBN 9783895815690
Awards
- 2016: Research grant of the Berlin Senat[5]
- 2019: Working grant radio play from the Film- and Media Foundation NRW[6]
- 2021/22: Fellow of the International Forum at the Berliner Theatertreffen[7][8]
- 2021: Hörspiel des Jahres (Radio play of the year) for Nagelneu (en: Nailed it) in cooperation with Maika Knoblich[9]
- 2022: Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude[10]
- 2022: Fellow of the Villa Komagawa at the Goethe Institut Japan.[11]
- 2022: Grant of the Capital Culture Fond (HKF Berlin)[12]
Websites
References
- ↑ Staude, Silvia (2015-01-14). "Das Fell über die Ohren ziehen". www.fr.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Primus, Juliane (2016-07-09). "Nagelschau in den Sophiensaelen - B.Z. – Die Stimme Berlins". www.bz-berlin.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Wildermann, Patrick. "„Hundeplatz" in den Sophiensälen: Rampen-Wau". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in Deutsch). ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Kollmann, Katja. "Hendrik Quast, Berlin: "Spill Your Guts. Eine Bauchrednershow"". Fidena - Portal für Figurentheater und Puppenspielkunst (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ "TdZ – Texte – 29 Recherchestipendien im Bereich Darstellende Kunst und Tanz vergeben". tdz.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ "Film- und Medienstiftung NRW fördert 11 Hörspielprojekte". Film und Medien Stiftung NRW (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ "Participants 2021 International Forum". berlinerfestspiele. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ↑ "Participants 2022 - Theatertreffen". www.berlinerfestspiele.de. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ↑ Hörspielkritik (2022-03-25). "Ein Petitesse und viel Prekäres. Das Hörspieljahr 2021". Hoerspielkritik.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- ↑ "Hendrik Quast". Akademie Schloss Solitude. 2022-06-08. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ "Hendrik Quast - Darstellende Kunst - Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa - Japan". www.goethe.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ↑ "Funded projects - Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin". hauptstadtkulturfonds.berlin.de. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
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