"FINAL FIELD" - The Ocean Between 9 Finisagge
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LIVALUCIA (Valeria Liva + Lucia Peters)
Scharniertheater Hannover
Uli Meinholz
Wolf Ruediger
Volker Dovidat
Franz Betz
Group 312 Films
The Great Frankini
Kao Ra Zen
When art begins to cross boundaries, a space emerges that is larger than any single discipline. In June 2026, The Ocean Between IX invites audiences into such a space — an open field stretching across continents and connecting people from the United States, Germany, and Africa. Under this year’s theme, Migrating The Color Fields – Expanded Field, the symposium unfolds as an event that not only presents art but sets it in motion: between body and image, between film and performance, between tradition and contemporary vision.
Since its inception, The Ocean Between has understood itself as a bridge across the Atlantic — a living network that grows each year and encourages artists to share their perspectives, stories, and forms of expression. What emerges is a dialogue shaped by curiosity, openness, and the courage to explore new paths. The symposium becomes a place where art is experienced as a connecting language — immediate, sensory, and communal.
In 2026, the symposium is dedicated to the idea of the Expanded Field, an extended terrain of artistic practice in which dance, film, music, painting, light art, and performance interweave. The diversity of venues reflects this openness: Sofa Loft Hannover becomes a pulsating center for performance, film, and encounter — and hosts the final exhibition ever to take place in this iconic space.
The participating artists shape this terrain with their distinct signatures. Marianna Buchwald, German‑American performance artist and initiator of the transatlantic exchange, brings mask work, movement, and ritual into poetic formats.
Over four weeks, a dense program unfolds with openings, performances, readings, films, talks, and dance evenings. The opening on 5 June sets the tone as music, dance, and sound merge into a ritual of arrival. The following weeks feature thematic focuses such as Celebrating Africa, literary evenings.
The Ocean Between lives through movement across the ocean. Artists travel from Chicago, Evanston, Angola, Togo, and various regions of Germany to work together, experiment, and develop new forms. The vision for the coming years is clear: to strengthen transatlantic networks, foster artistic mobility, enable new collaborations, and realize an exchange program in the United States in 2027. The symposium remains intentionally open — to new voices, new ideas, new paths. Students, emerging artists, performers, and all those interested are invited to become part of this growing community.
This project is made possible through the support of the City of Hannover and the District Council Südstadt‑Bult, whose commitment enables international art projects of this kind.
Artist: Akins Hyde, Amy Hanks, Andy Barthel, Beate Axmann, Cem Koc, Daniela Castro, Derek Quesada, Eduardo Flores Abad, Elisabeth Boskopf, Evanston Neocortex Dance Theatre Company aus Chicago, Fei Zouh, Fernanda Noll, Frank J. Gilalo (The Great Frankini), Franz Betz, Franzisco Melendez, Gio Lina Heike, Group 312 Films, Harro D.B. Schmidt, Iris Schmitt, Johann Leschinkohl, Joseffa Reder, Juan Enrique Roque Irizarry Jr., Judith Meyer, Jürgen Friede, Kao Ra Zen, Kathryn Hempel, Kevin B. Chatham, KrAss UnARTig, Kristin Heike, Lars Schumacher, Lori Kaplan, Marianna Buchwald, Mark Gonzales, Monika Neveling, Nigel Packham, Noriko Mazuda Kura, Philipp John, Richard Syska, Sabea Liedtke, Sarah W. Holmes, Scharniertheater Hannover, Susanne Spaltenstein, Takako, Timothy Tsang, Timm Ullrichs, Tryfield, Uli Meinholz, Werner Egly, Wolfgang Steidele
Organized by KrAss UnARTig
Scharniertheater Hannover
Uli Meinholz
Wolf Ruediger
Volker Dovidat
Franz Betz
Group 312 Films
The Great Frankini
Kao Ra Zen
When art begins to cross boundaries, a space emerges that is larger than any single discipline. In June 2026, The Ocean Between IX invites audiences into such a space — an open field stretching across continents and connecting people from the United States, Germany, and Africa. Under this year’s theme, Migrating The Color Fields – Expanded Field, the symposium unfolds as an event that not only presents art but sets it in motion: between body and image, between film and performance, between tradition and contemporary vision.
Since its inception, The Ocean Between has understood itself as a bridge across the Atlantic — a living network that grows each year and encourages artists to share their perspectives, stories, and forms of expression. What emerges is a dialogue shaped by curiosity, openness, and the courage to explore new paths. The symposium becomes a place where art is experienced as a connecting language — immediate, sensory, and communal.
In 2026, the symposium is dedicated to the idea of the Expanded Field, an extended terrain of artistic practice in which dance, film, music, painting, light art, and performance interweave. The diversity of venues reflects this openness: Sofa Loft Hannover becomes a pulsating center for performance, film, and encounter — and hosts the final exhibition ever to take place in this iconic space.
The participating artists shape this terrain with their distinct signatures. Marianna Buchwald, German‑American performance artist and initiator of the transatlantic exchange, brings mask work, movement, and ritual into poetic formats.
Over four weeks, a dense program unfolds with openings, performances, readings, films, talks, and dance evenings. The opening on 5 June sets the tone as music, dance, and sound merge into a ritual of arrival. The following weeks feature thematic focuses such as Celebrating Africa, literary evenings.
The Ocean Between lives through movement across the ocean. Artists travel from Chicago, Evanston, Angola, Togo, and various regions of Germany to work together, experiment, and develop new forms. The vision for the coming years is clear: to strengthen transatlantic networks, foster artistic mobility, enable new collaborations, and realize an exchange program in the United States in 2027. The symposium remains intentionally open — to new voices, new ideas, new paths. Students, emerging artists, performers, and all those interested are invited to become part of this growing community.
This project is made possible through the support of the City of Hannover and the District Council Südstadt‑Bult, whose commitment enables international art projects of this kind.
Artist: Akins Hyde, Amy Hanks, Andy Barthel, Beate Axmann, Cem Koc, Daniela Castro, Derek Quesada, Eduardo Flores Abad, Elisabeth Boskopf, Evanston Neocortex Dance Theatre Company aus Chicago, Fei Zouh, Fernanda Noll, Frank J. Gilalo (The Great Frankini), Franz Betz, Franzisco Melendez, Gio Lina Heike, Group 312 Films, Harro D.B. Schmidt, Iris Schmitt, Johann Leschinkohl, Joseffa Reder, Juan Enrique Roque Irizarry Jr., Judith Meyer, Jürgen Friede, Kao Ra Zen, Kathryn Hempel, Kevin B. Chatham, KrAss UnARTig, Kristin Heike, Lars Schumacher, Lori Kaplan, Marianna Buchwald, Mark Gonzales, Monika Neveling, Nigel Packham, Noriko Mazuda Kura, Philipp John, Richard Syska, Sabea Liedtke, Sarah W. Holmes, Scharniertheater Hannover, Susanne Spaltenstein, Takako, Timothy Tsang, Timm Ullrichs, Tryfield, Uli Meinholz, Werner Egly, Wolfgang Steidele
Organized by KrAss UnARTig
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Jordanstraße 26, 30173 Hannover, Deutschland, Jordanstraße 26, 30173 Hannover, Deutschland, Hannover, Germany
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