being grateful for the fucking processes
everything has a meaning
and who`s got the key
i can only feel it in my pocket
when I can say thank you
to the two who made an effort
to turn berlin into a port
climb a mountain
forget about sleeping
make mistakes so it doesn`t matter
and remember to sing
performance machen
supa to know why

Nadia Knapheide

Mara Maglione

I never managed it to come in such a short time so close with people together.
At the first day with the first excercise i have realized: "wow this is the best what can happend to me!"
I make a lot experiences about my person, who i am and where i am stand in the society etc..
I have had never bevor such a great felling in my life.
This is life and this is art.
The real life and the real art - just artforlife.
Now im realy empty because i have left this great friends to be at my homeplace.
But im happy and i know this dear friends are there on their places around the world.

Dionys Dammann

Teresa, listen to me.

Can you hear me?
Yes I can.

Well… what about Port Performance?

…..mmmm…..

There was an invisible hand touching me all over my body and soul.

Did you like it?

Sometimes .

I like myself and I don’t want something happen to me that make me change.

So Port Performance didn’t change you.

Fortunately it did!!!!!

I like you Teresa.

And I like you all!

Teresa Capasso

First of all, I think that you have been an excellent motor organ. You have left us with our private space even though you had to be inside of it, to run the workshop. You have been so respectfull in this way, and I think it is why we felt so comfortable with you.

As part of a group, every person is a vital organ. And thought every organ needs its space to function, every organ knows that the space of the others is also important for the survival of the group. And this collective space is also a figure ( a scheme/ a drawing/ a technical plan..) that we can find when we are working on our own performance. Some things are possible, some are not; in performance there is a Center that needs to be protected. And in order to preserve it, as in the group, we need to accept to limit our space. This reduction of DESIRE (created by imagination and fantasy) is part of the process. When I made this reduction, there had first been ONE minute of frustration. But then it came naturally, and it felt good. It is why "Port Performance needs to be performed."

Mathis Collins

Meir Tati

Performance machen, video-statement from Nadia Knapheide, Meir Tati, Karolina Kubik, Dionys Dammann, Mara Maglione click here 2,4 MB

"RISIBLE MORT", click here to listen to the song

Mathis Collins