Remaining on view:
About Liminal
You may or may not feel it, but we are creating a spontaneous community in this space. The boundaries between us have dissolved. The lens replaces your eye, initiating and sustaining contact. Inside this Liminal phase, we can change our identities and our governments. We exist in between the life we lived before and the life we will live after. Whenever after comes.
Still, the lasting effects on our psyche and social behaviors are unknown.
The only thing we know is that we miss touching another body, we miss our own bodies which could rebel! We are looking for the place of healing through movement together.
Concept and Choreography
Rachel Monosov
Rachel Monosov (b. 1987 St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Villa Massimo Fellow in November and December 2019. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
The multidisciplinary artist delves into cultural notions of alienation, territorial belonging, and identity, as she reflects a rootless present rife with broader social implications. She constructs entire worlds around her subjects, which function pursuant to their own set of laws. Monosov holds two MFAs from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium, and her BA is from Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, Israel. Monosov is a co-founder of the CTG Collective and is represented by Catinca Tabacaru Gallery.
The German Academy Rome Villa Massimo invited Rachel Monosov, former fellow in November and December 2019, to develop an online exhibition. It is the first time that Villa Massimo commissioned an artist to conceive an entirely new format, giving in this way a response to our current pandemic times. The performance LIMINAL was developed and filmed on site, taking into account all anti-Covid measures, and is made available to the public online.
The Rome Prize of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo is the most important German award for German artists or those artists who live in Germany for at least five years. It is the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media that offers a ten months residency to nine impulse-generating creatives from the fields of visual arts, composition, literature and architecture, selected by four different juries. In 2008, a two months fellowship has also been created for people from the applied fields of artistic creation, among others.
At the second seat of the Academy, Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano, each year eight fellows receive a three-month fellowship. The patron Eduard Arnhold founded the German Academy Rome in 1910 and donated the complex to the Prussian State right away. Today Villa Massimo falls within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government for Cultural Affairs and Media of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since July 2019, Julia Draganović has been Director.
With the kind support of
Julia Trolp
At the Villa Massimo Julia is the delegate for the Rome Prize Fellows, not only taking care of their artistic projects and every-day questions, but also opening up the cultural field of Rome and Italy to them. Before joining Villa Massimo she has been working in various major institutions such as Mart - Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento and Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella.
Co-Choreography and performance
Rachell Bo Clark
From Melbourne Australia, Rachell studied dance at the Victorian College of the Arts before moving to Europe in 2014, where she has established herself as a performer, artist and teacher. Inspired by the connective possibilities of dance, and the friendships, intimacy and community it builds, Rachell continues to collaborate and perform with choreographers Sebastian Matthias, Ursina Tossi, Emmilou Roßling, Colette Sadler and Visual Artist Rachel Monosov, among others. In 2017 Rachell was part of the DanceWEB scholarship program, proudly supported by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation.
Co-Choreography and performance
Stephanie Amurao
Born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Stephanie graduated in 2010 from the Juilliard School. She went on to dance for Stadttheater Bern, the Batsheva Dance Company and L.A. Dance Project. Stephanie is currently based in Berlin as a freelance dance artist working for Eastman, Noé Soulier, Gerard & Kelly, Trajal Harrell and Rachel Monosov. She is also a co-founding member of the Berlin based teaching collective, Mo.Ré.
Music & Text
Philipp Rhensius
Philipp Rhensius is a musician, writer, sound artist, founder of the music label Arcane Patterns, and editor of Norient based in Berlin. His projects merge sonic fiction with sardonic poetry and visceral sound, and are driven by the idea that «feeling the chains» is the moment when emancipation begins.
Composer
Santa Bušs
SANTA BUŠS is Latvian composer especially interested in detailed pre-compositional process and peculiarly in working with extra-musical ideas (found in other disciplines of art, physiology, history, mythology, nature, architecture, medicine, sports, philosophy, etc.).
Singer
Julia Shelkovskaia
Julia Shelkovskaia sopran. Began her singing study at the “Gnessin” College in Moscow, and then continued at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin.
Video Editor
Vera Rosa Maria Herr
Vera Rosa Maria Herr, *1988, is a German filmmaker and editor located in Berlin. Vera studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Den Haag, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and obtained her M.A. in Audio-Visual Arts at the Sint-Lukas School of Arts in Brussels.
Voice over
Mai Harper
Cinematographer
Andrea Arnone
Room 1, Room 2
Gaffer
Gioele Pistonesi
Sound
Dario Lanzellotti
Dario Lanzellotti is a Sound Designer, Pianist and Film Composer. His works are a combination of classicism and futurism. A lover of post production and real sound, organic.
Grip
Daniele Carbonaro
Focus Puller
Karim Benhadj Djilali
Data Manager
Sandro Magliano
Website Design
Shortnotice Studio
Shortnotice Studio is a graphic design studio run by Sascia Reibel and Mathias Lempart. Both designers are based in Berlin and enjoy the studio’s emphasis on collaborations in the field of fine arts.
Special Thanks for your contributions
Julia Trolp
Julia Draganović
Catinca Tabacaru
Marc Beer
Jessica Kelly
Elinor Sahm
R’m Aharoni
Muriel Hahn
Lorenzo Ambrogio
Giorgio Galotti
Special Thanks to Villa Massimo’s staff
Liability Note
© 2021 Rachel Monosov. She is responsible for this website. She assumes no liability for the content of external links. The operators of the linked pages are solely responsible for their content. All rights reserved 2021. The contents of the website are protected by copyright. Text, pictures, graphics, sound, animations and videos of this website may not be used or reproduced in any form without the prior written consent of Rachel Monosov, unless the information or graphics etc. are expressly intended for further use or marked for further processing.
Remaining on view:
About Liminal
You may or may not feel it, but we are creating a spontaneous community in this space. The boundaries between us have dissolved. The lens replaces your eye, initiating and sustaining contact. Inside this Liminal phase, we can change our identities and our governments. We exist in between the life we lived before and the life we will live after. Whenever after comes.
Still, the lasting effects on our psyche and social behaviors are unknown.
The only thing we know is that we miss touching another body, we miss our own bodies which could rebel! We are looking for the place of healing through movement together.
Concept and Choreography
Rachel Monosov
Rachel Monosov (b. 1987 St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Villa Massimo Fellow in November and December 2019. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
The multidisciplinary artist delves into cultural notions of alienation, territorial belonging, and identity, as she reflects a rootless present rife with broader social implications. She constructs entire worlds around her subjects, which function pursuant to their own set of laws. Monosov holds two MFAs from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium, and her BA is from Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, Israel. Monosov is a co-founder of the CTG Collective and is represented by Catinca Tabacaru Gallery.
Her work has been included in exhibitions at BOZAR and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium, Kunsthaus Hamburg and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn in Germany, Serlachius Museums in Finland, Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Villa Massimo in Rome; and in three international Biennales: 11th Bamako Biennale, 13th Biennale of Dakar, and the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. In 2019, she mounted her first solo museum exhibition at Tarble Arts Center in Illinois. She was awarded the German Academy in Rome Praxis Stipendium, the Northern Trust Purchase Prize, has been supported by the Goethe Institute, and was shortlisted for the Mack First Book Award. Her work has been acquired into the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Block Museum at Northwestern University, and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Artist website.
The German Academy Rome Villa Massimo invited Rachel Monosov, former fellow in November and December 2019, to develop an online exhibition. It is the first time that Villa Massimo commissioned an artist to conceive an entirely new format, giving in this way a response to our current pandemic times. The performance LIMINAL was developed and filmed on site, taking into account all anti-Covid measures, and is made available to the public online.
The Rome Prize of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo is the most important German award for German artists or those artists who live in Germany for at least five years. It is the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media that offers a ten months residency to nine impulse-generating creatives from the fields of visual arts, composition, literature and architecture, selected by four different juries. In 2008, a two months fellowship has also been created for people from the applied fields of artistic creation, among others.
At the second seat of the Academy, Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano, each year eight fellows receive a three-month fellowship. The patron Eduard Arnhold founded the German Academy Rome in 1910 and donated the complex to the Prussian State right away. Today Villa Massimo falls within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government for Cultural Affairs and Media of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since July 2019, Julia Draganović has been Director.
With the kind support of
Julia Trolp
At the Villa Massimo Julia is the delegate for the Rome Prize Fellows, not only taking care of their artistic projects and every-day questions, but also opening up the cultural field of Rome and Italy to them. Before joining Villa Massimo she has been working in various major institutions such as Mart - Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento and Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella.
Co-Choreography and performance
Rachell Bo Clark
From Melbourne Australia, Rachell studied dance at the Victorian College of the Arts before moving to Europe in 2014, where she has established herself as a performer, artist and teacher. Inspired by the connective possibilities of dance, and the friendships, intimacy and community it builds, Rachell continues to collaborate and perform with choreographers Sebastian Matthias, Ursina Tossi, Emmilou Roßling, Colette Sadler and Visual Artist Rachel Monosov, among others. In 2017 Rachell was part of the DanceWEB scholarship program, proudly supported by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation.
Co-Choreography and performance
Stephanie Amurao
Born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Stephanie graduated in 2010 from the Juilliard School. She went on to dance for Stadttheater Bern, the Batsheva Dance Company and L.A. Dance Project. Stephanie is currently based in Berlin as a freelance dance artist working for Eastman, Noé Soulier, Gerard & Kelly, Trajal Harrell and Rachel Monosov. She is also a co-founding member of the Berlin based teaching collective, Mo.Ré.
Music & Text
Philipp Rhensius
Philipp Rhensius is a musician, writer, sound artist, founder of the music label Arcane Patterns, and editor of Norient based in Berlin. His projects merge sonic fiction with sardonic poetry and visceral sound, and are driven by the idea that «feeling the chains» is the moment when emancipation begins.
Composer
Santa Bušs
SANTA BUŠS is Latvian composer especially interested in detailed pre-compositional process and peculiarly in working with extra-musical ideas (found in other disciplines of art, physiology, history, mythology, nature, architecture, medicine, sports, philosophy, etc.).
Singer
Julia Shelkovskaia
Julia Shelkovskaia sopran. Began her singing study at the “Gnessin” College in Moscow, and then continued at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin.
Video Editor
Vera Rosa Maria Herr
Vera Rosa Maria Herr, *1988, is a German filmmaker and editor located in Berlin. Vera studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Den Haag, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and obtained her M.A. in Audio-Visual Arts at the Sint-Lukas School of Arts in Brussels.
Voice over
Mai Harper
Cinematographer
Andrea Arnone
Room 1, Room 2
Gaffer
Gioele Pistonesi
Sound
Dario Lanzellotti
Dario Lanzellotti is a Sound Designer, Pianist and Film Composer. His works are a combination of classicism and futurism. A lover of post production and real sound, organic.
Grip
Daniele Carbonaro
Focus Puller
Karim Benhadj Djilali
Data Manager
Sandro Magliano
Website Design
Shortnotice Studio
Shortnotice Studio is a graphic design studio run by Sascia Reibel and Mathias Lempart. Both designers are based in Berlin and enjoy the studio’s emphasis on collaborations in the field of fine arts.
Special Thanks for your contributions
Julia Trolp
Julia Draganović
Catinca Tabacaru
Marc Beer
Jessica Kelly
Elinor Sahm
R’m Aharoni
Muriel Hahn
Lorenzo Ambrogio
Giorgio Galotti
Special Thanks to Villa Massimo’s staff
Liability Note
© 2021 Rachel Monosov. She is responsible for this website. She assumes no liability for the content of external links. The operators of the linked pages are solely responsible for their content. All rights reserved 2021. The contents of the website are protected by copyright. Text, pictures, graphics, sound, animations and videos of this website may not be used or reproduced in any form without the prior written consent of Rachel Monosov, unless the information or graphics etc. are expressly intended for further use or marked for further processing.
