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This Foreign Concept
This Foreign Concept is an international performance ensemble with core members currently residing in
Berlin, Copenhagen, and New York City. By living in multiple places we are consistently growing our
individual exposure to new and diverse performance practices, then returning to each other to share these
ideas in order to expand and deepen our generative process in the studio. Our main interest, besides the
creation of new work, is the continuous exchange of art-making ideas and techniques gained from our
individual cultural environments. We hope to expand this exchange to an ever widening international
artistic community as we continue to show our work around the world. This Foreign Concept is interested
in capturing and capitalizing on the uniqueness of sharing the experience of live performance with the
audience – of stripping away the formalities and personalizing the experience without pandering.
Berlin, Copenhagen, and New York City. By living in multiple places we are consistently growing our
individual exposure to new and diverse performance practices, then returning to each other to share these
ideas in order to expand and deepen our generative process in the studio. Our main interest, besides the
creation of new work, is the continuous exchange of art-making ideas and techniques gained from our
individual cultural environments. We hope to expand this exchange to an ever widening international
artistic community as we continue to show our work around the world. This Foreign Concept is interested
in capturing and capitalizing on the uniqueness of sharing the experience of live performance with the
audience – of stripping away the formalities and personalizing the experience without pandering.
The Ensemble active in various configurations for more than 10 years has been working under the name This Foreign Concept since 2008. In 2009 and 2010 the group created two new devised performances which premiered in Berlin.
Wild West Wild East (2009) This Foreign Concept at the Lyn-Lin Performance Space - Berlin
Wild West Wild East, is a hyper-theatrical performance by This Foreign Concept, which
explores the creation of individual identities as they exist in the flux between cultures, religions,
nations, and performative traditions. It takes the form of a highly entertaining vintage television variety
show, deconstructed through the optics of contemporary performance, and follows three characters as
they scramble to keep up with the relentless pace of their own multiple personas.
Time! (and/or Progress?) (2010) This Foreign Concept, Venue: Idanowhere - Berlin
Time! (and/or Progress?) is constructed from a variety of source texts including the play Time
and the Conways by JB Priestly and its original source, An Experiment with Time by JW Dunne, which sets
forth his “Theory of Recurrence.” According to Dunne, all time is happening simultaneously: the past,
present, and future are one. From this idea we construct an event that does the same, weaving together the
disparate strands of several distinct, but overlapping performances.
The Drifting Underground Co. http://www.drifting-underground.de/about.html
Drifting Underground Productions is a satirical agitprop collective attempting to address relevant political and social themes through an irreverent, boisterous, vaudevillian cacophony of crazy. Our production called the Drifting Underground Tour takes the form of a city sight-seeing spectacle, where the 'true' bohemian elements of Berlin can be encountered. The artist as entrepreneur, creator of cultural capital, and the reality of poverty all intermingle in the streets to illustrate the numerous difficulties one encounters living in creative Berlin. The work of Drifting is effective on several fronts. By bringing the performance event into interaction or sometimes collision with non-performance environments one can create a temporary rift in the daily perception of 'reality'. This proves a fertile ground to insert social commentary or reflection into the humdrum of daily existence. Removed from the widely pre-conceived theatrical environment, Drifting creates an instantaneous and spontaneous communality with the general public.