Melanie Jame Wolf: Ballads of Outlaw Feelings – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Melanie Jame Wolf:
Ballads of Outlaw Feelings
Ballads of Outlaw Feelings
10€/15€/20€/25€
Ballads of Outlaw Feelings explores song as a vessel for tenderness in a hard world. It is an evolving solo performance series exploring lyrics, the voice, ear worms, and language acts as a compass for crossing emotional landscapes and other territories. Ballads of Outlaw Feelings is a treatise against conventional codes of emotional containment. Staging herself as The Host, Wolf works with folk fragments, pop hooks, anthemic choruses, and the dark comedy of the cosmic joke to invite audiences into an intimate encounter with lyrical devotion.
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Melanie Jame Wolf is a choreographer, writer, and visual artist who lives in Berlin. She works solo and with friends, making interdisciplinary pieces about power, flows of capital, and the phenomenon of 'show business': the liminal, the persuasive, the deceptive, the staged, the performed. Her work is concerned with the problems and poetics of class, sensuality, gender, narratology, and the body as an unruly political riddle. These investigations are often expressed through a hyper-stylised pop aesthetic and play with language in subliminal and surprising ways. Her work has shown at: HAU - Hebbel am Ufer; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, nGbK, The National 2019: New Australian Art Biennial, Festival of Live Art Melbourne, VAEFF Film Festival NYC, Arts Santa Monica Barcelona, Schwules Museum, Sophiensaele, Münchner Kammerspiele, Arts House Melbourne; KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstmuseum Basel, Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, and Schirn Kunsthalle. She was a nominee of the 2022 Berlin Art Prize.