{"id":512,"date":"2020-03-31T16:26:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T14:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luftartistin.de\/en\/?page_id=512"},"modified":"2020-04-01T00:26:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T22:26:30","slug":"jana-korb-production-cultural-politics-and-networking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/luftartistin.de\/en\/jana-korb-production-cultural-politics-and-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"Jana Korb – production, cultural politics, and networking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I studied cultural science and fine art in Berlin and Moskau, and aerial arts and performance with Mike Wright, Orit Nevo, Mimbre, Gabriel Chame, Elias Cohen, and Minako Seki. I create and produce aerial theater and narrative circus, mainly producing performances for public space. As a creator and researcher I am searching for a circus of the future.<\/p>\n

My artistic style is rooted both in Czech experimental theater with its strong tradition of object theater and in Moscow Romantic Conceptualism. My subjective look as a woman onto the world as well as my feminist background have a strong influence on my artistic productions.<\/p>\n

I am artistic director of the Aerial Arts Festival Berlin, co-founder of the RAW cultural space (Berlin), and active in the Magdalena Project. I am first chair of the Federal Association for Theater in Public Space in Germany.
\nI live and work within the collective korb+stiefel in Eastern Berlin.<\/p>\n

>> About Jana Korb<\/a><\/p>\n

>> Artistic director: Aerial Arts Festival Berlin<\/a>
\n>> Research: Women in circus<\/a>
\n>> Network: Magdalena Project<\/a>
\n>> Lobbying: Theater in public spaces & contemporary circus<\/a>
\n>> Teaching: Aerial arts and more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Jana Korb, Foto: Vojtech Brtnicky<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Luftartistik Festspiele Berlin<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Artistic director: Aerial Arts Festival Berlin<\/h3>\n
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Contemporary aerial arts are \"high\" art in every sense of the word.
\n2016 we had our first meeting of international renowned aerial artists, vertical dancers, and trapezists \u2013 to perform and present their work, to teach, and to network in Berlin.<\/p>\n

The Association for Overcoming Gravity (Verein zur \u00dcberwindung der Schwerkraft) started the Aerial Arts Festival Berlin with artistic directors Jana Korb und Daniel Megnet (now Jana Korb and Jessie Walters), to be repeated annualy.<\/p>\n

Partners are Maulhelden B\u00fcro, Institut Fran\u00e7ais, Berliner Senat, and others. Patron is Arnulf Rating.<\/p>\n

>> further information<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Luisita Leers<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Research: Women in circus<\/h3>\n
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\"To imagine her as wife and mother was simply stupid; a wife and mother, or even anyone who could possibly be
\nthought of as one, does not hang head-down from a trapeze[...] An unapproachable Amazon of the realms of space beneath the canvas, high above the crowd, whose lust for her was transformed into aw.\"
\nThomas Mann in Felix Krull (1909)<\/p>\n

This quote lists the only roles attributed to us women. This being a paternalistic, objectifying reduction is obvious \u2013 there is still a lot of enlightenment to do. Circus women, acrobats and other performers, are the best example to show the wide range of femininities, androgynities, and other identities of women. I love researching this, I love finding forgotten women, to bring them to life, and to show their fantastic stories to the world.<\/p>\n

Publications, exhibitions, lecture performances and more
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Magdalena Project, Transit Festival, Foto: Rina Skeel<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Network: Magdalena Project<\/h3>\n
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International network of women in contemporary theatre<\/p>\n

The Magdalena Project is a dynamic cross-cultural network of women\u2019s theatre and performance, facilitating critical discussion, support and training. It is a nexus for diverse performance groups and individuals whose common interest lies in a commitment to ensuring the visibility of women\u2019s artistic endeavour.<\/p>\n

Jana Korb has been active in the Magdalena Project since 2013, partaking in meetings and festivals. She is working with initiatives to bring the project to Germany. At the moment there are Magdalena groups in Munich, Frankfurt\/Main, Wuppertal, and Berlin.
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\n>> Magdalena Project \u2013 international network<\/a>
\n>> Magdalena M\u00fcnchen \u2013 festival curated by Helen Varley Jamieson<\/a>
\n>> Internationales Frauen Theater Festival \u2013 an affiliated festival in Frankfurt\/Main<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Lobbying: Theater in Public Spaces & Contemporary Circus<\/h3>\n
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Justifying and explaining to be proper art \u2013 a situation both genres of the performing arts have in common. Both art forms are creating with precarious conditions (e.g. little public funding), but both attract a huge and wide audience of all classes.<\/p>\n

Jana Korb is at home in both art forms \u2013 creating contemporary circus for public spaces. Thus she is lobbying for both by networking, working in associations, and producing festivals.<\/p>\n

>> Federal Association for Theater in Public Spaces <\/a>
\n>> Federal Association of Contemporary Circus<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Jana Korb, Foto: Vojtech Brtnicky<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Teaching: Aerial arts and more<\/h3>\n
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Ongoing classes in Berlin:
\n- Trapeze
\n- Silks<\/p>\n

Workshops:
\n- Creation in confined space (for aerial artists and performers)
\n- Aerial arts for advanced students and beginners (trapeze, silks, hoop...)
\n- Rigging basics and safety in aerials<\/p>\n

>> further information<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I studied cultural science and fine art in Berlin and Moskau, and aerial arts and performance with Mike Wright, Orit Nevo, Mimbre, Gabriel Chame, Elias Cohen, and Minako Seki. I create and produce aerial theater and narrative circus, mainly producing performances for public space. As a creator and researcher I am searching for a circus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n