Performance “Turn Around for Here for Katja Meirowsky” by Discoteca Flaming Star

• Day: June 4
• Time: 7:30 p.m.
• Space: Aljub
• Free activity with prior registration
• Duration: 90 minutes

In 1949, Katja Meirowsky founded in Berlin, together with other creators, the artists’ cabaret Die Badewanne [The Bathtub], a multidisciplinary experimentation center that united painting, literature, dance, theater and music to denounce the survival of Nazism in postwar society. The exhibition “The Red Action and the Membrane” by the German creator living in Ibiza from 1953 to 2000 can be seen until August 25, 2024 at Es Baluard Museu.

Inspired by Meirowsky’s artistic and cabaristic research on the relationship between pictorial and scenic spaces, Discoteca Flaming Star embraces in performance the tension between filmic and performative spaces. The irreverent energy of cabaret as a vehicle for reconfiguring visuality and the connection with the audience will be evoked and invoked in the encounter.

In the performance “Turn Around for Here for Katja Meirowsky” DFS interacts with their video work: “A Violent Silent Movie without Camera”. The footage was shot in the artists’ studio during the pandemic. The balcony facing the street, which they had sealed with a rear projection screen became a cinematic stage to portray two mysterious figures. The performance is Discoteca Flaming Star public attempt to encounter the signals emitted by these images; interacting with the film through drawing and live sound.

“Turn Around for Here for Katja Meirowsky” lasts approximately 90 minutes; visitors may enter and leave as they wish and are invited to walk and sit among the artists during the performance.

Discoteca Flaming Star (DFS) is a multidisciplinary artistic collaboration group that uses songs and other forms of oral expression as a personal response to historical, political and social events. Through conceptual, visual and musical transfers, they create performances, sculptures, drawings, set designs and situations whose main intention is to question and challenge the audience’s memory, transforming old desires and finding invented pasts or those that never occurred. DFS is the place where the oracle speaks through the non-chosen. It is a love letter written in present continuous, addressed to thousands of artists. They exploit their knowledge and their ignorance, working slowly and inspired by Anita Berber, Warhol’s wig, homeless ghosts, Rita McBride’s “Arena”, Gregg Bordowitz, Mary Shelley, Karl Valentin & Lisl Karlstadt, the Vienna Group, Álvaro, Joey Arias and the paintings and dialogues of David Reed. DFS present wonderful songs of love, consumption, fervor and feminism, rugs that help cross burning bridges, fragile works in the form of drawings and things that go together even though they shouldn’t. They act directly in the gap that exists between action and documentation, generating and finding documents that can be used to articulate strange languages that incite action and reasoning.

Their work has been shown at numerous venues, including the Dia Art Foundation (Dia Beacon), Artists Space, New York; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid; De Appel Amsterdam; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; MUMOK, Vienna; Tate Modern, London; The Kitchen, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Cristina Gómez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer have been the base of DFS since 1998. Currently DFS are: CGB, Sofia Lomba, WM, and Sara Pereira.