As of: March 18, 2024, 12:20 p.m
By: Andrea Kästle
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Up close to the tree: Artist Jana Korb combines artistic performance and a connection to nature.
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You could now experience a very special forest walk in Buchenhain.
The Pullach filmmaker Ella von der Haide and “aerial artist” Jana Korb revealed an unusual approach to nature.
Baierbrunn/Pullach
– The whole thing was really very special and began with the two artists feeling the trees below the Waldgasthof Buchenhain and dancing around the trees, which sounds a bit esoteric.
But the good thing was: it never became too much.
And never cheesy either.
There was no speaking during the entire performance, and the participants were not supposed to speak either.
During the walk, tree branches were shaken and the cracking was listened to, then Jana Korb and Ella von der Haide traced the beetle tracks on a thick trunk - and read out what they thought they recognized there: “Sun, moon, together , together."
Aerial acrobatics on the Isar slope: Jana Korb from Saxony-Anhalt in action.
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Acrobatic performances and spruce needle tea
Finally, somewhere on the exposed giant root of a giant spruce, Jana Korb's first acrobatic performance followed.
She stood on her head on the root and assumed various positions over the slope, although she was secured.
You leaned against a railing, the sun came out and you were impressed.
Then there was spruce needle tea from wooden cups, and Ella von der Haide reported that they had wanted to include the “Methuselahs” under the trees in the program, but they had refused any cooperation.
Young beeches, from whom the old trees deprive them of light, wanted to cooperate, and you could now listen to their messages for a short while lying on the ground.
The spectacular conclusion was another acrobatic performance, this time performed at a height of 20 meters on a tree trunk.
Jana Korb sometimes lay down on a mini side branch, held by the rope, and she was wearing a long orange coat.
Ella von der Haide (r.) and Helen Varley Jamieson, a visitor on the left, listen to nature.
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Queer feminist view of life
Afterwards, Ella von der Haide, who grew up in Pullach, said that she had been collaborating artistically with Jana Korb for 30 years.
She co-founded Solawi Isartal and said she “came to art through urban agriculture.”
Among other things, she made a seven-part documentary about community gardens; a queer-feminist view of life is particularly important to her.
“Nothing is more queer-feminist than thinking about the circus of the future and plants together,” was the program.
She said she wanted to move away from a purely human-centered view, which is also the goal of the performance: to make tree-human communication tangible.
The four walks in the Isar Valley were the premiere of the pair's second program, which was supported by the Ministry of Culture.
They also show it in Münster and northern Hesse.
Nicola von Thurn was responsible for the design and furnishing of the five acts, and Helen Varley Jamieson was also involved.