Lake Studios Berlin

The Sculptor by Uma Supatra-Campbell

Performed by Uma Supatra-Campbell and Ruben Bergtraun

It’s interesting this urge I have to destroy. To dig my hands into the mountains and let it run through my fingers like kinetic sand. I crave the sensation of destruction and creation, the ebb and flow sped up by my own action. The knowledge that it is so small and I, a giant, holding mountains in my palms and watching them be molded by my hands/ losing shape/ the perfection disrupted/ dirt underneath my fingernails.

besta by Giovana Sanchez

BESTA emerges from a heightened sensitivity to the present moment, moving in the space where thought and sensation blur. The piece unfolds through fragments, sounds, gestures, memories—each treated as a pulse that appears before it is understood, a trace of something instinctive and essential.At its center lies a tension between control and surrender: the impulse to shape and refine meets the desire to let things reveal themselves in their wild, unfiltered form. The work tries to catch what escapes even as it is lived—”capta essa coisa que me escapa e no entanto vivo”—operating in the charged zone where sensation arrives first and meaning follows later.Guided by the feeling that “the instant is one of an imminence that takes my breath away,” BESTA invites the viewer into a state of constant arrival, where every moment threatens to become something else.

Otto-Braun-Straße by Rachele Gibilterra

Music credits to: Alexander Bonus and Elisa Carretto

Change is movement, and we are never fully arrived.
A progression of stages melts into one another. It begins in a fairy‑tale atmosphere that slips into irony, then unfolds into an outwardly romantic unfolding from memory and imagination — until everything dissolves into a blend of minimalism and the quiet destruction of fantasy.
This is an exploration of a fantasy that feels more real than reality, and a reality that feels constructed — a mirror that keeps flipping back and forth, leaving us to wonder which world is reflecting which, reminiscent of the mirrored universe in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass.

windy days by Cecilia Xuetong Feng

movement research: Alexz Grieco, Cecilia Xuetong Feng performance: Alexz Grieco, Chelsea Reichert
sound composition and live music: Marta-Liisa Talvet
with the generous contribution of Kristóf Siklósi

On the occasion of Unfinished Friday Vol. 120, Cecilia will be performing for Chelsea.

Windy days examine the obscure moments of oppression hidden within the storms of history. The moment of wind becomes a metaphor for dissolving the common language on the surface and revealing individual stories. Wind brings tangibility to the space we share, as well as the complexity of relationships between bodies and space. On stage, two performers generate dynamics through scores and games, which then expand into an atmospheric presence that takes over their movements. The harmonium fills the space with air and breath. Voice becomes a shared entity that breathes the identities of the absent into the present bodies, while transforming the stage into other places and times.