performance art

united sorry develops their own performance art at festvials, galeries and musea. they want to intensify the space where they perform, and are interested in a way of being in a space, that relates to everyhting what is there. they call it the ecology of performing.

tv baby/guest appearance at spencer sweeney

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spencer sweeney, photo:  Rachel Chandler , for more pictures go to www.purple-diary.com ( calendar 18 jan)

saturday  16 january 2010 a rockopera, entitled tv baby ended a month time exhbition of spencer sweeney in the gavin brown’s enterprise in New York, robert was …

united sorry @ egon schiele

united sorry has a long time wish to intensify the exhibition spaces of gustav klimt and egon schiele. During the dancenight , organised by TQW and Brut, october 2009, they had the opportunity to get in dialogue with the paintings of egon schiele at the Leopold museum.

They wanted to be …

versuch es einfach

“Versuch es einfach, singen mit der Füssen, das rundherum nie negieren, denken mit dem Arsch, Stille im Herzen” United sorry occupied one room in ” Tempel der Vernunft”, the openingevent of Steirische Herbst 2009 graz.

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Only dressed in their black pointshoes and …

woodstock/ absolutely performance

At 16th of may 2009 united sorry made a three houres long performance at the death of the woodstockideology.

photos: ed hauswirth

The spine of the performance was a text which referred to quotes of the tibetan book of the death and brought an hommage to the work, death of an artist

s-s-s-sink in / the intensifiers & beatriz milhazes

photo: olivier ouadah

fondation cartier invited united sorry to intensify the exhibition of beatriz milhazes. The result was a concert of 14 songs in the context of “une soiree nomade” june 2009, paris. see for the lyrics of the song, the page under texts.

dancing the thin line

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as an exercise in going to the essence of their art in relation to society united sorry did a budhistic exercise to make a statement as a zen drawing: in one stroke, in a meditative state. it was a very …

nous sommes tres petits (a face de la montagne)

six hour long performance in the installation “I hear voices” of Nadia Lauro, Vienna/Impulstanz july 2008

two men are standing far away from each other, looking to each other from a distance, a play about the hunter and the deer, being on two mountaintops separated by a valley. pictures :david berge

my flat/our flat

a collaboration with Theater am Bahnhof during a theatrefestival in Oberzeiring, a mountainvillage in Austria. An installationwork in an empty house with furniture, given by the villagers for an intimate amount of public. October 2008, pictures made by Michael Traussnigg.

Intensifiers nr.2/ Dan, Martha, Trisha, Frans & Robert

A performance act as a prelude for the theatre
Tanzquartier, 9 november 2006

As a next version of the intensifiers ( black high heels, black arty clothes, inspired by the environment and intensifying what is allready there in the space) and a prelude for the project feminine delight , we brought …

Intensifiers # 1/Hosting Matt Mullican

Lentos museum in Linz / Choreographic Platform Austria 2006

Intensifiers is an on going project of different events about being hypnotiezed by the surroundings. Frans Poelstra, Robert Steijn and Martin Siewert let themselves be influenced by an exhibition, a party, the architectur of a space.

They translate their experiences in short …