Page 10 - PIP

Public
in
private
Jasna L. Vinovrski & Clément Layes
About the book
The publication is divided into three parts. The first two parts chart the development of our respective body of works, organised according to our choreographic interests and working methods which we have developed over the past 12 years. The third part of the publication
brings to the forefront a side to our activities at the PiP (Public in Private) studio that is usually kept invisible: the organisation of events and residencies for artists. Here, we delve into the various artistic platforms we’ve developed together with our colleagues in order to strengthen connections between Berlin artists and the Berlin performance scene.
We would like to thank all of our collaborators who generously contributed their thoughts and reflections to this publication. We are deeply thankful for having had the chance to collaborate with each of them and with many other amazing artists who crossed our path in the past 12 years. We hope our relationships will continue for many more years to come!
Aframe
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Public in Private, founded in Berlin in 2008, is the frame for our artistic work. The year 2020 marks 12 years of Public in Private. When planning the publication, we couldn't have imagined how pivotal this year would be for society. The corona pandemic has had and continues to have a huge impact on our lives, bringing about many negative but also positive and necessary changes to the way we live and work. The time of slowed-down activities that the pandemic incurred capacitated us to reflect on our artistic past and to look towards the future and to what this future may hold. This document brings together and makes visible our two different artistic universes, which we have been developing over the past 12 years. As collaboration lies at the core of Public in Private, we decided to construct this publication in a collaborative spirit. Our works are not only presented here through our own words, but also through the views of our collaborators, offered singularly or in dialogue. We invited our dramaturges, production managers, writers, artists, curators, light designers and performers, who we worked with over the years, to reflect on our works, what our creative processes meant for them and how it affected their professional development.