RAUM · ZEIT
Rotating, floating spheres, sand, sound, and bodies form a performative landscape in RAUM · ZEIT, asking whether we can resist the hurry of existence for a moment.
In RAUM · ZEIT, Tobias Piero Dohm combines performative composition, spatial intervention, and material research with installation, juggling/object manipulation, and dance. Using natural materials, he creates ephemeral landscapes in which movement, object, and space merge into a sensual experience of time, space, and presence.
The core material is sand – both a fleeting substance and a finite resource. It stores time, makes transformation visible, and becomes a metaphor for impermanence, memory, and change. Sand-filled spheres and kinetic apparatuses float, roll, trace movement, leave marks, and build ever-shifting topographies. In this work, bodies, objects, and materials deconstruct and reassemble elements from contemporary dance and circus traditions – generating poetic tension between precision and collapse, control and coincidence.
In a society increasingly characterised by acceleration, sensory overload, and interpersonal alienation, RAUM · ZEIT creates moments of collective deceleration, sensual presence, and deep connection – a performative resonance space against forgetting the essential. Accompanied by a richly layered soundscape of modular synthesizers, the work invites the audience to pause, perceive, and experience the space as an open dialogue between body, object, material, and sound. An invitation to momentarily escape the urgency of everyday life.
RAUM · ZEIT is the result of a multi-year artistic research process shaped across Germany, Italy, France, Finland, and most recently Senegal – a translocal evolution born from residencies, dialogue, and ongoing artistic exploration.
From early in-situ performances at the Biennale in Aix-en-Provence to a full-length stage production and a durational walk-in installation at PACT Zollverein, RAUM · ZEIT has evolved into a range of formats – from site-specific interventions and immersive stage environments to multi-hour live installations. Each version invites the audience to explore new aesthetic realms and experience time - not as a linear progression, but as a dynamic structure full of surprises.
Versions & Formats
Live-Installation (in creation)
1.5h – 8h · walk-in · all ages
Stage Version
60 minutes · non-verbal · 4+
Shortcuts
10–25 minutes · all ages
Artistic dossiers & Full-length videos on request
GENERAL INFORMATION 15min – 3h · non-verbal · all ages · walk-in · relaxed · immersive
SUITABLE FOR Theatres · Circus & dance venues · Museums & galleries · Contemporary art spaces · Performance platforms · Biennales & interdisciplinary contexts · Site-specific and architectural spaces · Industrial halls & factories · Public & outdoor spaces · Shop windows · Short, experimental & durational formats
TEAM Artistic direction, concept, choreography, performance: Tobias Piero Dohm Sound design & live music: Fabian Laute Lighting design: Fabian Bleisch Artistic collaboration: Andrea Salustri, Martin Stiefermann Communication & coaching: Heike Diehm, K3berlin Kontor für Kultur und Kommunikation Production: ehrliche arbeit - freies Kulturbüro, Tobias Piero Stage design: Tobias Piero Objects: Tobias Piero, MS Schrittmacher Technical support: Andreas Schwalbe, Fabian Buntrock
SPECIAL THANKS Matteo Blau & Filip Jacobson (Videography), Inga Groß & Anatole Serexhe (Photography), MS Schrittmacher (Provision of requisites), Lina Gómez (Costume advice & Residency support), Cristiana Casadio & Ana Jordão (artistic exchange), Katakomben Kollektiv (constant exchange, rehearsal space & workshop), Stefan Sing, Bow Delquie, Marie Stremmel, Konstantin Klabunde, Julia Wellmann, Alex Lemperter, Markus Oppenländer
Funding and Collaborations FUNDED by the General Project Funding of the Landesbüro NRW Freie Darstellende Künste e.V., funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science, Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
CO-PRODUCED by Tollhaus Freier Kulturverein e.V., Karlsruhe, and Flottmann-Hallen, Herne, Societaetstheater Dresden
SUPPORTED by Goethe-Institute, Nationales Performance Netz, Chamaeleon Berlin, schloss bröllin e.V., C.I.A.M., – Centre Internationale des arts en movement, Le Chateau de Monthelon, TIQU – Teatre di Quartiere Genova / Sarabanda assoc., DOCK ART, Katakomben - Center For Performing Arts, Maschinenhaus Essen, PACT Zollverein and the FIN-GER Partnership Residency 2024 in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, Finland Institute Berlin, CIRKO - Centre for New Circus Helsinki, Circus and Dance Info Finland, Bundesverband zeitgenössischer Zirkus e.V.