Raise The Roof (Venice)  2017

Raise The Roof (Venice)

Raise The Roof (Venice), 2017 (clips from the performance)

Raise The Roof (Venice)

Performance at Viva Arte Viva, 57. Venice Biennial, 2017

Duration 8:24 min

(photo credit: Raphael Beinder)

Raise The Roof (Venice)

(photo credit: Raphael Beinder)

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(photo credit: Raphael Beinder)

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(photo credit: Raphael Beinder)

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(photo credit: Raphael Beinder)

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(photo credit: Raphael Beinder)

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(photo credit: Raphael Beinder)

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Stages after the performance

(photo credit: Raphael Beinder)

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(photo credit: Raphael Beinder)

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Stiletto, Woman Of The Ghetto, 8:24 min, 2017

Heel imprint on copper, wooden frame,
H 104 × W 104 × D 5 cm

(photo credit: Trevor Good)

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Stiletto, Drunk In Love, 6:21 min, 2017

Heel imprint on copper, wooden frame,
H 104 × W 104 × D 5 cm

(photo credit: Trevor Good)

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Stiletto, Enjoy The Silence, 6:03 min, 2017

Heel imprint on copper, wooden frame,
H 104 × W 104 × D 5 cm

(photo credit: Trevor Good)

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Stiletto, A Better Tomorrow, 4:55 min, 2017

Heel imprint on copper, wooden frame,
H 104 × W 104 × D 5 cm

(photo credit: Trevor Good)

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Stiletto, Stilettos Pumps, 3:23 min, 2017

Heel imprint on copper, wooden frame,
H 104 × W 104 × D 5 cm

(photo credit: Trevor Good)

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Stiletto, Wild World, 3:08 min, 2017

Heel imprint on copper, wooden frame,
H 104 × W 104 × D 5 cm

(photo credit: Trevor Good)

Raise The Roof (Venice)

Stiletto, Yaow, 2:10 min, 2017

Heel imprint on copper, wooden frame,
H 104 × W 104 × D 5 cm

(photo credit: Trevor Good)

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Raise The Roof (Venice), 2017

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(photo credit: Raphael Beinder)

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(photo credit: Raphael Beinder)

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(photo credit: Raphael Beinder)

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For the Venice Biennial Nevin Aladağ restages Raise The Roof which was performed for the first time in Berlin in 2007 on a rooftop in the former border section between West and East Berlin.

Seven female dancers leave their traces on the copper stages with their stiletto shoes while dancing to given songs, played on their headphones. The audience can read the different titles on the shirts of the dancers. What the audience hears is a rhythmic sound produced by the stiletto steps. Each dancer produces another frequency of a drum set, from high hat to bass drum.


Music titles:

Woman Of The Ghetto, 8:24 min

Drunk In Love, 6:21 min

Enjoy The Silence, 6:03 min

A Better Tomorrow, 4:55 min

Stilettos Pumps, 3:23 min

Wild World, 3:08 min

Yaow, 2:10 min