Marie-Claude Poulin has developed
a movement approach founded on her training and professional practice
in contemporary dance, her teaching of somatic-education techniques
and her graduate-level studies in kinanthropology, during which
she analyzed movement with respect to the nervous system.
As a dancer, Marie-Claude Poulin has toured and worked with various
choreographers, notably Benoît Lachambre, José Navas and Meg Stuart.
As a choreographer, she has created fifteen dance pieces from
which the most significant is Le Corpuscule mécanicien (1999).
In Berlin, she later met Martin Kusch with whom she has consolidated
her artistic practice and desire to put together a performance
group, leading to kondition pluriel and the choreographic installations
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Martin Kusch studied art history, philosophy
and painting. For the last 15 years, he has been working as a
visual artist in media arts. Since 1997, he has also been teaching
in the department for Visual Media at the University of Applied
Arts in Vienna. His artistic practice is based on the creation
of interactive installations and environments, and on architecture
and site specificity.
Martin Kusch’s installations and videographic works have been
presented on many occasions, primarily in Europe. Amongst them,
Video-Licht-Installation is a video installation for a gallery
space, shown in Graz in 1992. As far as In-Between, featured at
the Festival Ars Electronica in Linz in 1994, and Galerie Winter,
shown in Vienna in 1997, are both installations for public spaces.
Martin Kusch has also participated in various group projects,
particularly Crash Landing, produced by the Tanzwochen Wien in
1996, as well as the event Körper-Technik // BodyTechnology held
in Berlin in 1999, where he worked in conjunction with choreographer
Marie-Claude Poulin. <
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