Ernst Fischer


From
'The Wolfman' 1996-97

'Roomours - A Series of Spaces and Texts'.

Sexmutant has commissioned Ernst Fischer to create a series of fluid and interactive installation / performance environments at the Nunnery Gallery over a three day period:

  • Friday October 20th 1 -5pm
  • Saturday October 21st 1 -5pm
  • Sunday October 22nd 1 -5 pm

Ernst Fischer’s extensive performance career has embraced both solo work and collaborations with
The Divine David (Channel 4 1998);
Franko B;
Helen Spackman The Visitation, Chisenhale Dance Space (1995);
David Schweitzer Plato’s Symposium, ICA (1996).

For two years (1989-91) Ernst was a member of the David Glass New Mime Ensemble.

He is co-founder of the Pink Feet, Warm Bodies dance theatre company and has toured UK with Gay Sweatshop: Club Deviant (1997).

Ernst’s solo work has included The Bound Man, ICA; Alkemie, Whitechapel Gallery; Anus Domini, London International Festival of Theatre (all 1999); and Love in the Time of Melancholia at Battersea Arts Centre for the London International Mime Festival (1997).

In 1986 Ernst initiated the Brixton heART Room, ‘a loose association of artists and performers exploring aspects of site-specific performance and queer communality’. This project became the subject of Ernst’s PhD research at the Roehampton Institute: Minotaurs - Mapping the Queer Space of Living-room Theatre and Domestic Performance (1994 - present).

Ernst holds an MA. (Drama and Theatre Studies) from London University.

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