subjoyride

by Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm

Through a series of performative acts, subjoyride invites viewers to engage in a corporeal dialogue with the poetic work of the German Dadaist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927).

In their new stage production, Berlin-based choreographer and performer Boglárka Börcsök and filmmaker and artist Andreas Bolm continue their artistic exploration of the personal, emotional, and historical, venturing into the grotesque and the marginal. Using voice, gesture, music, and embodiment, the artistic duo delves into the Baroness’s complex personality and eccentric body of work, which spans poetry, performance, and sculpture — a scatological cosmos oscillating between the abject and the grotesque. Playfully intertwining the Baroness’s visceral poetics with a forensic discourse, they speculate on the true authorship of the famous ready-made artwork Fountain — the inverted urinal attributed to Marcel Duchamp, yet increasingly associated with the Baroness. subjoyride takes audiences on a performative journey linking the Baroness’s era with the present time, figuratively sniffing out how the modernist art canon, imperialism and various forms of fascism are intertwined and perpetuated— from canonization to canalization.

artistic concept, dramaturgy, music, scenography Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm performance Boglárka Börcsök guitar Andreas Bolm
 text Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm

lighting Catalina Fernández 
sound design Neda Sanai 
costume design SADAK
 technical director Andreas Bolm
 production assistance/ props management Beatrice Zanesco 
vocal coach, music advisor Vera Jónás

artistic advisor Susanne Sachsse 
production & distribution Nicole Schuchardt & Rodrigo Zorzanelli 

3D Print “Fountain” Daniel Valencia Ferrá / Digital Craft
 photos Mayra Wallraff

a production by Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm
In co-production with Black Box Theater (Oslo), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Sophiensaele (Berlin) 
funded by Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion

supported by NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Koproduktionsförderung Tanz, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media with the kind support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e. V. and Centre Français de Berlin, Kristina Konrad – Weltfilm 
thanks to Dragana Bulut, Jule Flierl

The title of the performance is borrowed from the poem Subjoyride (ca. 1920-1922). 

Further poems of Baroness Elsa Freytag von Loringhoven referenced in the performance:

Coach Rider (ca. 1924)

Mefk Maru Mustír Daas (1918)

They won't let go fart (ca.1923-1925) 

Graveyard surrounding nunnery (ca. 1921) 

To whom it may concern (ca.1922)

Fix (ca. 1924-1925)