Vor Gericht

Performative Installation
600 x 300 cm
UQBAR, Berlin
12.06.2020

"This is how space begins, only with words, with signs put on paper."*

According to the Courts Constitution Act (GVG) § 169, it is not allowed to film or photograph in court in Germany. Accordingly, other forms of notation were found to record the proceedings; such as court drawing, stenography and voice recording for written minutes. The work "Vor Gericht" relates these to movement notations.

The architecture of the Munich Regional Court is immaterially reconstructed through movements and the body itself becomes a sign carrier.

*Georges Perec, Träume von Räumen

DANCE
Amie Jammeh

MOVEMENT ANALYSES
Cary Rick (Institute for Movement Analyses)
Amie Jammeh (dancer)
Anna Konjetzky (choreographer)

STENOGRAFY
Peter Erhardt (Stenographers' Association Ettlingen)

DRAWINGS
Sara Chaparro

SPEAKER
Reiner Frey (President of the Regional Court of Tübingen)

VIDEO + EDITING
Magdalena Stateva

GRAPHICS
Julia Emslander