Willi Dorner: Bodies in Urban Spaces (Rare edition)

Hardcover | 25.4 x 2.5 x 30.5 cm | 160 pp

Hatje Cantz | 2014 | 9783775738477

Willi Dorner's projects include pieces for the stage, site specific performances and installations. He is also active in the field of short films, visual arts and stages photography. Most works are created in collaboration with artists and scientists from various fields.

His project Bodies in Urban Spaces takes us on a walk through the urban landscape. On predetermined courses carefully choreographed by Dorner, a troupe of local dancers, performers and free runners move through the downtown areas of cities worldwide, witnessed by a fascinated public. Up to twenty colourfully dressed people intertwine and stack their bodies in doorways, on ledges, landings, and park benches.

These bizarre body sculptures open up a curious perspective and offer city-dwellers a surprisingly different urban experience. In their innovative uses of urban space, the temporary interventions are provocative, and they sometimes inadvertently attract the attention of the police. Each performance has an individual character, depending on its specific features, site, and time of day, as conveyed by Lisa Rastl's photographic documentation.