elLe eSs

upcoming events: 20.05.2013, 8pm private performance LEFT OUT somewhere in Berlin Wedding ****** ------------------------------------------------------------------elLe eSs is a tool-name Lisa Stertz uses to present herself and her work online.
She is enrolled in the European Media Studies program (M.A.) at the University of Potsdam and the University of applied sciences Potsdam. Within her academic research her work oscillates between video and performance.
She currently lives in Berlin.

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2013-03-22

WHERE THE DIAMOND SLEEPS

Butoh Sound Performance
Dance: Valentin Tszin, Evgenia Chetvertkova, Lisa Stertz, Maria De Faria, Jakob Mache, Yuko Kaseki
Music: Sasha Pushkin, Masaya Hijikata

Inspiration and Imagination come from the Far Northeast to here

glaSs graSS grOUND, fallIng criStal voICE
bluE sky aNd golDen TeetH, stEamed FigURe
spiral holE reACH TO MAgMA
brEATh InTo BreATh, refrACTioN lIGHT
tiME of sNOW MElting, tiME of ICIcle hangINg,
sNOw ANgGel, Ice dEviL
INTernal Organs of ANIMAls

date: 22.02.2013
duration: 1 1/2h
location: Zimmer Null, Storkower Straße 118, 10407 Berlin

photographs by Melanie Wiener _ http://melaniewiener.de/
2013-03-11

exhibition documentation Katz&Stertz: AUF MEIN SHEITEL

exhibition time: 13.12. - 16.12.2012
location: C.I.A.&T. Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought, Zossener Straße 34, 10961 Berlin

photographs by Melanie Wiener _ http://melaniewiener.de/
2012-12-10

Katz&Stertz: AUF MEIN SHEITEL

AUF MEIN SHEITEL is a collaborative 2-part set of performances that examine the intersection of the languages German and Yiddish, and associated cultural/ religious customs. Yiddish, the Jewish language of Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe, is a linguistic mixture of German and Hebrew (with select slavic influences), and orally bares a marked resemblance to German. Jewish-American artist Elana Katz and German artist Lisa Stertz work together in related performances that attempt to access, explore, and comment upon the parallels and discrepancies between these two languages and an associated cultural practice, from a distinctly outsider perspective. The “Sheitel” (the Yiddish word for the wig that a religious Jewish woman wears after marriage), and “Scheitel”, (the German word for the part in one’s hair or the crown of one’s head) will be a foundational starting point for this performative critical dialogue.

date: 08.12.2012
duration: 1 1/2h
location: C.I.A.&T. Berlin

Katz:

photographs by Philip Metz
© 2012 Philip Metz. All Rights Reserved

Stertz:

photographs by Gilad Baram _ http://giladbaram.net/

elLe eSs

2013-03-22

WHERE THE DIAMOND SLEEPS

2013-03-11

exhibition documentation Katz&Stertz: AUF MEIN SHEITEL

2012-12-10

Katz&Stertz: AUF MEIN SHEITEL